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Hampshire Dining Commons

Our grant-funded project converted Hampshire Dining Commons, one of UMass Amherst's on-campus dining halls, into a premier campus eatery dedicated to sustainability, healthy, and great-tasting foods which provides a defensible and cost-effective example to implement campus-wide. 

Our passionate and knowledgeable Dining Services sustainability team develops seasonal menus which include recipes that leverage world cuisines to entice students to try new foods and to help them permanently adopt a healthier diet. 

Redesigned meals consist of more sustainable seafood (underutilized fish such as dogfish, sea trout, porgy, and barramundi), Real Food certified meat (local, humane, free-range, antibiotic free), plant-based proteins, fruits and vegetables, and healthy beverages. Simultaneously, we are reducing consumption of red meat, processed and fatty foods, corn syrup, and sodium while using various strategies to eliminate waste and find cost efficiencies (e.g. use vegetable trimmings for stock) to offset the higher cost of Real Food protein sources.

Making Local, Healthy Sustainability Delicious: The How-To Guide for Food Service Operators, is an in-depth case study on this pilot project and is available for free on this website.

UMASS DINING . UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST . AMHERST, MA 01003
phone: 413-545-8682 | www.umassdining.com