Every egg we offer on campus comes from cage-free farms. This choice benefits both animal welfare and sustainability, promoting environmentally responsible farming while ensuring students enjoy wholesome, high-quality ingredients.
Fueling A Sustainable Future
We believe that creating a better world for generations to come starts today.
Our Collective Responsibility
At Wheaton College Dining Services, we’re committed to making a positive impact on campus and the community by focusing on responsible sourcing, reducing food waste, and offering nutritious meals made with responsible practices. From supporting local partners to making thoughtful choices in our dining operations, we’re working every day to build a more sustainable future. And you can be a part of the effort, too!
Working Toward Zero Waste
We proudly support the sustainability goals of Wheaton College. Here are a few active initiatives.
Collaborative Composting
We partner with The Plante Brothers Farming 📍112 Oak Street, Norton, MA to collect clean food scraps—like fruits, veggies, bread, grains, dairy, eggs, and vegetable oils—to help feed their pigs.
Robust Recycling
To support sustainability, Chase Commons offers green reusable to-go containers. We also follow Wheaton College’s recycling rules by properly sorting cardboard, metal, paper, glass, approved plastics.
Proactive Prevention
We use tracking and forecasting tools to proactively identify food waste trends in order to alter our preparation accordingly.
Your Choices Can Make a Daily Impact
Our goal is to make it easy to offer you nutritious, environmentally, and socially conscious options wherever possible.
Showcasing Our Local Partnerships & Sustainability Efforts
Wheaton Dining sources food from a variety of local farmers, growers, and distributors. Our partners may change throughout the year based on seasonality and availability, ensuring the freshest ingredients for our campus community. We are committed to sustainability, offering responsibly sourced tuna, cage-free eggs, and other ethically produced foods that support animal welfare and environmentally responsible practices.
Cage-Free Eggs
Animal Welfare
we prioritize animal welfare by sourcing ingredients, like cage-free eggs and responsibly raised meats, from farms that provide humane living conditions. This approach ensures that the food we serve not only tastes great but is produced in a way that respects animals and supports ethical farming practices.
Sustainable Sourcing
All canned tuna served on campus is sustainably sourced, meaning it comes from fisheries that follow responsible practices to protect ocean ecosystems and prevent overfishing. By choosing sustainably caught tuna, we help support healthy marine populations, reduce environmental impact, and provide students with seafood that is both nutritious and environmentally responsible.
Our Local Sourcing List is Always Growing!
- Jansal Valley, New Bedford, MA
- Pell Farms, Grafton, MA
- Wysoki Farms, Amherst, MA
- Ward’s Berry Farm, Sharon, MA
- Lookout Farm, Natick, MA
- Wilson Farm, Lexington, MA
- Eva’s Garden, S. Dartmouth, MA
- Lanni Orchard, Lunenberg, MA
- Jonathon’s Sprouts, Rochester, MA
- 4 Town Farm, Seekonk, MA
- Nequochoke Orchard, Westport, MA
- Hood Dairy, Boston, MA
- Fantini Bakery, Shrewsbury, MA
- Simpson Spring, S. Easton, MA
- Farming Turtles, Exeter, RI
- Quonset View Farm, Portsmouth, RI
- Carlson’s Orchard, Harvard, MA
- Green Thumb Farms, Fryeburg, ME
- Szawlowski Potato Farms, Hatfield, MA
- Sorantino Produce, Vineland, NJ
- Pell Farms, Somers, CT
- Backyard Farms, Madison, ME
- Lef Farms, Loudon, NH
- Little Leaf Farms, Littleton, MA
