Dalhousie University
OP-6: Food and Beverage Purchasing

Dalhousie campus food offerings include Aramark, Chartwells, University Club and Dalhousie Graduate House. A sample list of sustainable food and beverage vendors are listed below: Just Us Coffee - Coffee, tea Farmer's - Dairy Chapman - Dairy Atlantic Beef - Beef Highliner - Seafood Stone Hearth Bakery - Bread Van Meekeran Farms - Fruits and Vegetables Vermeulen Farms - Fruits and Vegetables Chef's Garden ( on campus garden) Maritime Pride Eggs - Animal products Fisher's Market - Seafood Mike Oulton's Meat - Animal products Cavicchi Meats - Animal products Fancy Lebanese Bakery - 24 Carrots - Bread River View Herbs - Fruits and vegetables

Retail (Aramark) : Vending: We offer Fair Trade Cadbury Dairy Milk Bars in each vending machine. Just Us Coffee Shop: All Fair Trade Coffee and Tea, Fair Trade Chocolate bars, Local apples year round, Local produce when available. All non-franchised Coffee Shops: All Fair Trade Coffee, Minimum Fair Trade Teas, Fair Trade chocolate bar option, Local apples year round, Local produce when available. Second Cup Coffee Shops: Offer the one Fair Trade coffee, Cuzco, option every day, Fair Trade chocolate bar option, Local apples year round, Local produce when available. Grad House: ALL beef and pork is local (pepperoni, Montreal smoked beef, ham, shoulder bacon - Sweet William’s, Farmers’ Market), baguette is local (ACE) as well as basil (Riverview Herbs, Farmers’ Market) and vegetables when in season (tomatoes, parsley, onions, red peppers, mushrooms - Farmers’ Market). All coffee is locally roasted, fair trade and organic (Laughing Whale Coffee Roasters), All tea is from Traditional Medicinals (Fair-trade, Non GMO Project verified, organic), Just Us! (Fair-trade, organic) and Four O’Clock (Fair-trade, organic).

Farm to Table by Food Services (Aramark) at Dalhousie : Seasonal Menus: Changing our menus with the season allows us to increase the amount of local produce offered on our menus year round, Cutting our own French Fries from local potatoes in all four dining halls year round and Offering local apples only at all of our dining locations across campus. Food Services at Dalhousie sources food from many local farmers, growers and distributors. The list changes throughout the year depending on seasonality and availability. A huge part of our Farm to Table program are Farm Tours and Field Research. Each year our team visits several local farmers and during the semesters we invite these same farmers into our dining halls to meet the Dalhousie community. Sustainable Fish: Working with Dalhousie’s Office of Sustainability we have developed a sustainable seafood purchasing program. In September 2014 our dining halls served sustainable haddock, cod, scallops, shrimp, mussels, salmon, and tilapia. Last year we served sustainable haddock, scallops, shrimp, and mussels. Find more information here on Aramark sustainable food and beverage purchasing program at dalhousie: http://www.campusdish.com/en-us/ca/dalhousie/sustainability Chartwells on the Agricultural campus: have a number of programs including using produce from the on-campus gardens and providing fair trade beverages. http://www.dineoncampus.ca/ac/dining-plan-info

Each year food contractors at Dalhousie request that suppliers provide a purchase report. Research on food vendors was carried out together with the dollar amount provided by food contractors. Using a spreadsheet, the food purchases data was analysed by commodity groups and estimates of local and community based, and third party certified were arrived at. The definition of small to medium based enterprise (1-499 employees) as provided by the Government of Canada was used in assessing community-based food and beverage purchases.

Aramark Food kitchens on Dalhousie campuses are MSC certified.

Dalhousie University is exploring Fair Trade campus certification