NECI is proud to have participated in the 3rd Annual Growing Local Fest held here in Montpelier recently. Check out some highlights in this video.
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First Frost? Time To Buy Brussel Sprouts!
Editor’s note – This is the seventh installment of Stepping Up To The Plate, a Media and Communications guided study project. As with our public restaurants, constructive feedback is welcome and encouraged so that our students can best learn by living it. Check in weekly in the coming months for new posts from student blogger Matt. [...]
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Kingdom Farm and Food Days: High Mowing Seeds
Editor’s note – This is the third installment of Stepping Up To The Plate, a Media and Communications guided study project. As with our public restaurants, constructive feedback is welcome and encouraged so that our students can best learn by living it. Check in weekly in the coming months for new posts from student blogger Matt. What Are [...]
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Tips For Sustaining a Seasonal Menu From Chef Tom
Developing and sustaining a seasonal menu is a simple task in the summer months, but can be a far more daunting task at the height of the shoulder seasons and winter months. It’s often difficult to manage guest expectation throughout those shoulder months and equally difficult to be continuously creative with the same six ingredients, [...]
Time to Grow – NECI Campus Garden Planning Underway
NECI’s Executive Chef Tom Bivins, who is also President at the Vermont Fresh Network, passed along a note to NECI staff regarding plans for our annual gardening efforts for use in our restaurants and as part of the teaching process. Here’s the latest:
NECI garden space plans are underway. Chef Tom and Slow Food NECI students will be making a compost run to our Central Vermont Solid Waste partners, Vermont Compost, which helps students and staff draw connections between our responsibility for food waste and our help rebuilding soil. In an ideal world, we would prepare and eat what we need and not what we think we want, thereby, reducing our food based footprint. Food waste makes up 10% of landfill space – more than plastic water bottles.
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