The NY Times for Friday, 19 June 2009 included an article entitled For Colleges, Small Cuts Add Up to Big Savings by Tamar Lewin.  The College of Wooster and Oberlin College were mentioned for their cost-cutting measures such as summer jobs for students in landscaping and vegetable gardening along with reductions in food services as noted in the following quote from the article:

And the College of Wooster
in Ohio is trying to hold on to financially struggling students, and
their tuition dollars, by offering minimum-wage summer jobs in its
“WooCorps,” which has almost 200 students painting rooms, landscaping
and growing vegetables this summer. WooCorps students will get an extra
$1,000 in their financial aid packages — and help the college complete
more maintenance projects than usual.

Many colleges are cutting
food-service options, too. Wooster shuttered one of its two dining
halls, and Oberlin reduced the operating hours at its cafe.

David Ahntholz for The New York Times

Sara Falkoff, a junior at the College of Wooster, tills a new vegetable garden on the campus.

Brad Masi is a graduate of Oberlin College and currently teaches there in the Environmental Studies Program.  He also has a connection with food services at Oberlin.  Furthermore, he is a co-founder of City Fresh in Cleveland and Executive Director of the Ecological Design Innovation Center at Oberlin.  Both organizations are heavily involved in garden-to-institution linkages within local food systems.

Brad's stories would make interesting reading as would those of people associated with food services at College of Wooster.

What would Sara Falkoff, whose picture is in the NY Times article, say about what happens to the food produced in the gardens she is tilling?  Would she be willing to post about it on LFS Storytellers?

Maybe Brad's experiences at Oberlin would have application for food services at the College of Wooster?  Would folks at the College of Wooster meet with Brad and others at Oberlin to explore possibilities?

Would the results of research done by Joe Kovach at OARDC in urban agriculture benefit food services at the College of Wooster?  An interview with him could offer valuable perspective.

Looking forward to reading what stories the storytellers tell!