Local & Sustainable News

UNH Dairy Bar Offers Cream of Sustainability's Crop

By Herb Perry, Green Initiatives, March 18, 2013

DURHAM, N.H. — “Sustainability is one of the UNH’s core values,” says Andrew Porter, the university’s retail manager of dining services. And diners are the beneficiaries of an embodiment of those values, a university sustainability program that grows fresh greens locally for consumption at the UNH Dairy Bar...Read More>>

UNH Dairy Bar Serving Local Greens With A Side Of Science

By Beth Potier, UNH Media Relations, April 27, 2011

DURHAM, N.H. – The University of New Hampshire’s Dairy Bar, a restaurant with the tag line “Local, Fresh, Sustainable,” is serving salad greens this spring that couldn’t be more local: they’re grown just up the road at UNH’s Woodman Farm. And before they’re doused in vinaigrette, the gourmet greens have served science and helped inform New Hampshire growers about a potential new winter crop...Read More>>

UNH Reopens Celebrated Dairy Bar With Focus On Local, Sustainable Food

By Beth Potier, UNH Media Relations, September 18, 2008

DURHAM, N.H. - It still looks like a train depot, and it still serves breakfast, sandwiches, and much-loved ice cream.

But the University of New Hampshire's Dairy Bar, a landmark for generations of students and community members, has been renovated and reopened with a focus on sustainability that has current and future generations in mind. Reopened in August 2008 under management of UNH Dining Services, the Dairy Bar boasts food that is local, often organic, and served with an eye toward nutrition; Energy Star-rated appliances; and even take-out containers that are compostable...Read More>>

Sneak Preview of What's to Come at the Train Station and Dairy Bar

By Jody Record, Campus Journal Editor, May 7, 2008

...Dining Services, which will be taking over the management of the Dairy Bar, also will be there to discuss the eatery’s new menu, which will focus on healthy, sustainable food. Read More>>