Sustainability

At Muhlenberg, we talk the talk and walk the walk. All of our food is served at the peak of freshness with our menus based on the seasonality and availability of fresh, locally grown products. We only partner with sustainability minded, ethical vendors. 

Farmers Market

Muhlenberg College hosts a Farmers Market on the College Green every semester. The market is organized by Muhlenberg College’s Environmental Action Team (EnAcT) and sponsored by Muhlenberg Dining. 

Farms from the Lehigh Valley (such as BAD Farms, Bleilers Produce Patch, Crooked Row Farm, Knee High Farm, Red Cat Farm, Ridge Valley Farm, and Schocarie Ridge Apiary) visit campus, offering a variety of products and produce including honey, tea, maple syrup, smoothies, kombucha, vegetables and more. 

EnAcT organizes the market in order to support local farmers, as well as to educate the Muhlenberg Community on the importance of eating locally. 

Food To Your Table 

Each day our team strives to "wow" our customers and continually challenges itself to set the bar higher. Our culinary team routinely delivers restaurant-quality food that features fresh, local, healthy ingredients. What is "normal" here is out of the ordinary at other colleges and universities.

Our goal is to create exceptional dining experiences through creative and cultural menu planning, expert food preparation and innovative presentation. As you to dine with us there are a few things we’d like to share with you (in addition to many more highlights)... 

• Our Soups are made fresh from scratch each day
• Butter Valley Harvest, located 15 miles away, is our exclusive provider of hydroponically grown Basil for our house-made Pesto
• We have partnerships with Lancaster Farm Fresh Cooperative & The Common Market as well as other independent Farms and Producers to procure local, regional and organic produce from over 110 farms, these items are featured in the ‘Local Toss’
• Our Pizza Dough is made fresh every day, stretched, tossed and baked by hand
• All of our meats are fresh, choice-grade or better and USDA inspected
• We bake our own Sourdough and Milk and Honey Bread made from locally grown and milled organic flower daily
• We offer fresh-ground Peanut Butter made every day with our Peanut Butter machine
• We serve fresh sustainably raised Royal Tide Salmon on a regular basis, and all of our seafood is purchased according to recommendations by Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch
• We serve our original Vegan Oyster Mushroom Focaccia, featuring Lehigh Valley grown mushrooms daily
• All our Burgers are cooked on-demand from fresh never frozen Ground Beef
• Allergen Friendly Lunch and Dinner are available daily
• Our Granola is made fresh in-house every day
• Etcetera!