A Small College's Students Take Pride in Growing Much of What They Eat

Sterling College's 96 students eat in a dining hall without a gleaming pizza-and-pasta station, or neon signs, or even a soda dispenser. In place of such amenities they get homemade bread in long, tasty loaves, vegetables grown in the college gardens, and soups prepared in a comfortable kitchen by cooks they can drop in to visit any time they want.

The potatoes and onions the students eat are bought from nearby farms, the milk they drink is produced by a local organic dairy, and some

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