NORTH ADAMS â It seemed like a good idea at the time, and it still does.
For a couple of years, Elena Traister, the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Environmental Studies professor who heads the schoolâs Campus Sustainability Committee, and others talked of taking an out-of-service space on campus with windows for walls and ceiling and making it a greenhouse.
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The greenhouse sits outside Venable Gym, directly over the kitchens and dining services below, so, Tony Fiorentino, MCLA s executive chef, calls it âRooftop to Tabletop.â
This spring, the first crop of seedlings was planted.
Facilities workers cleared out the space, installed an entrance through one of the windows because it isnât accessible through the building, and built raised plant beds. Then, with the help of campus sustainability intern Anayra Colon, MCLA Dining General Manager Scott Tolmach and, in consultation with MCLA executive chef Tony Fiorentino, they retrieved seeds from