Michigan State University
OP-6: Food and Beverage Purchasing

MSU Student Organic Farm Culinary Services partners with the MSU Student Organic Farm (SOF) to provide campus-grown, certified-organic produce – grown by students, for students – to MSU’s dining halls. The farm features a hoop house, or solar passive greenhouse, dedicated to the production of greens for various dining facilities across campus, including Heritage Commons at Landon and Brody Square. MSU Beef MSU Beef is a program made possible through a partnership with MSU’s Department of Animal Science in which MSU beef is served in residential dining halls and from the Eat at State ON-THE-GO Food Truck. This project encompasses approximately 100,000 lb. of live cattle. Currently, all MSU beef has a lean-to-fat ratio of 80-20. MSU Bakers MSU’s own on-campus bakery offers delicious baked goods made-to-order for special occasions of all kinds. A great source of school year cheer, the MSU Bakers offer personalized cakes and cookies, brownies and cupcakes, balloons and care packages — and they’ll deliver on campus! Spartan parents often send love to their students in the form of MSU Bakers' goodies for birthdays, final exams, graduation or just because. The MSU Bakers also cater to faculty and staff in need of freshly baked breads and bagels for campus business meetings or retirement party cakes. MSU Dairy Store With two locations on campus, MSU’s own campus dairy, the MSU Dairy Store provides a variety of ice creams and cheeses to Culinary Services operations on campus. Bailey GREENhouse & Urban Farm Located on the grounds of Bailey Hall in MSU’s Brody Neighborhood, Bailey GREENhouse is made possible through a partnership between the Division of Residential and Hospitality Services (RHS), the Residential Initiative on the Study of the Environment (RISE) and the MSU Student Organic Farm. Herbs grown in Bailey GREENhouse are tended to by students of RISE and served at Brody Square, the State Room Restaurant in the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center, and various other dining halls across campus. MSU Culinary Services provides advance contracting for production of herbs grown at Bailey GREENhouse. • Bailey GREENhouse harvests: o Herbs and mints o Spinach o Mixed greens o Tomatoes o Cucumbers o Strawberries o Rhubarb

MSU RHS is developing a Sustainable food policy guide that will provide guidance all our current and future efforts.

MSU has a central warehouse that all our purchases are made through and they are able to track and inventory all food and supplies coming into campus.

We are not a Fair Trade campus, but do serve 100% Fair Trade coffee in all the 21 Sparty's coffee shops and at the Kellogg Hotel and Banquet center.

9% of our local expenditure is grown within a 250 mile radius. MSU serves 50,000 meals per day so local growers cannot support us very much. 12% of our expenditures is Third Party Certified... primarily coffee.