Essentials Magazine Essentials Fall 2016: EDspaces Edition | Page 34

President’s Perspective
experts to create a unique
food experience. Beyond
Green along with Candacity,
Denver Equipment Company, and Foodservice Facility
Designs by LMS Development LLC have teamed up to
build sustainable school food
communities that connect
school kitchens, classrooms,
and local communities through
food and education. The team
supports schools in implementing scratch-cooked food
operations using foods from
local sources, while engaging
students and the school community around cooking, food
and nutrition education, waste
reduction, and environmental
awareness.
EDspaces 2016 attendees
will have the opportunity to
enjoy sustainable schoolstyle lunches on Wednesday
and Thursday on the tradeshow floor.
The menus are designed by Chef Greg

Christian, president of Beyond Green
Sustainable Food Partners, who is working in conjunction with the food service

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staff at the Duke Energy Convention
Center to deliver a unique lunch experience for our group.
The Beyond Green team will tell the
story of the future in school food in visual
story boards showing students enjoying
eating meals that are prepared from
scratch using fresh ingredients from the
school garden and local farms, practicing
being good stewards of the earth by recycling and composting, and are engaging in
learning about food and nutrition in green
school dining centers and classrooms.
In addition, the Beyond Green team
will present “Envisioning the Future of
School Food” an education session to
share trends in sustainable school food
and building practices to attendees.
“This is the future of school food,”
says Chef Greg Christian, president
of Beyond Green Sustainable Food
Partners. “We are excited to be sharing
real-life examples of how to implement
sustainable foodservice platforms with
the people charged with improving
school environments.”
EDmarket is uniquely positioned to
bring this new initiative to the attendees of EDspaces, but more importantly, to expose the concept to the hundreds of school districts and architects
who will be designing and implementing the cafeterias of the future. Time
to go to lunch!
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