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Moveable Table: Food Sol’s Community Table Hits the Road

We have some really exciting news to share:  last week, Food Sol secured a challenge grant from the Blackstone Ranch Institute to bring our Community Table design to four partner colleges and universities who have been asking for it. As you regulars know well, Food Sol’s Community Table is a 90-minute weekly gathering available to…

Babson at the Summer Fancy Food Show

Last week, Babson food entrepreneurs Michael Scherr (M’14) and Adriana Perilla Glen (M’13) and Food Sol traveled to the Summer Fancy Food Show, called by many “the Superbowl of specialty food.” Michael and Adriana attended to support Food Sol partner Michael McCarthy’s booth for his business Budi Bar.  (Food Sol is a huge fan –…

The College President who Turned a Football Field into a Farm

I knew Michael Sorrell before I met him.  I’d hear the news, back in 2010, that one extraordinary college president was leading Paul Quinn College to turn its football field into a farm, now called We Over Me Farm. So when Babson President Len Schlesinger popped into Food Sol’s office last November, and told me…