Transforming Tomorrow by Preserving the Environment

A portal to food systems research, teaching, outreach, and extension programs at UK.

As a cross-college group of faculty and staff, the FSI strengthens and creates University-level programs; provides leadership and support for various food-related scholarship at UK; promotes formal and informal education about food systems; and mobilizes resources to address food-related issues.

Caption: The 2018 CSA Crew poses with freshly picked snap peas before the storm rolls in

Food Systems at work

(FSI) The Food Systems Initiative

Sustainable Produce

The Food Systems Initiative:

  • Promotes food-related educational programs and events and seeks to raise awareness of and interest in food-related issues on campus
  • Encourages research on food-related topics 
  • Provides opportunities for local, regional, and international engagement
  • Fosters linkages among UK, the Commonwealth, and institutions and peoples who are actively engaged in food-related issues.

The Food Connection

The FSI partners heavily with the Food Connection, a unit created to facilitate academic integration on sustainable food systems issues, funded by an endowment created by our private dining services partner, Aramark. At heart of The Food Connection is the Learning Kitchen: a state of the art demonstration kitchen and classroom used to engage the on and off campus community and host various events to demonstrate recipes and promote local foods.

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Food Systems Experts

View a list of experts  working in food systems and sustainability.

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