Food Next Door: From Food Literacy to Citizenship on a College Campus

This episode walks through a campus experiment where students ran a local food operation from farm to kitchen to table. We break down how customers, volunteers, and graduate leads described their experiences, and how taste, peer service, and hands on work built skills and shifted values. You will hear how a weekly cycle of harvesting, cooking, and serving turned dining into a living learning lab. | We also unpack the paper’s careful claims and limits. You will learn what food literacy and food citizenship mean in practice, how value chains differ from supply chains, and why immersion across the whole chain—not more lectures—nudged students toward leadership and advocacy.