Auburn University

The The Double Rainbow Cafe will serve students at Auburn University healthy meals made with fresh ingredients without hidden fillers or toxins. The cafe is a project of the Auburn Real Food Challenge, and will hopefully be integrated into the curriculum for hospitality, management, agriculture, business, and sustainability students. Various other student organizations, including the Auburn Sustainability Action Plan and the Environmental Awareness Organization, have gotten involved as well. Auburn is especially conducive to coops because is a small, close-knit community with many small businesses and local farms, and contains plenty of open space for farming. Being an agricultural college, it also has many students looking for farming experience. Students have recently planted a trial garden containing corn, cucumbers, pumpkins, and tomatoes to practice with.

Rosco Davis
Email: rmd0007@auburn.edu

Rosco is a truly unique individual with a culture all his own.  His passion for sustainable food came to life when he attended the Southeast Youth Food Activist Summit at the University of Georgia in Athens in 2011.  There he heard a presentation from CoFED that changed his life forever.  Rosco is passionate about the environment and his fellow man.  He wants to change the food culture of the South and make the world a happier, healthier place to live.  After starting and working in a student Co-op at Auburn University, Rosco plans to go into eco-tourism in Central America to continue spreading his love for food, creation, and the creator.

Kristyn Carroll
Major: Biodiversity and Conservation
Email: kec0020@auburn.edu

Kristyn has had a passion for food justice for years but didn’t really know how to channel it until she met the CoFED Mid-Atlantic regional directors at the Southeast Youth Food Activist Summit. Her love for food, student power, social justice, and politics have made her fall in love with the cooperative business model for a cafe on her campus. Aside from these things she loves being outdoors, animals, and a good cup of coffee. She is a Conservation and Biodiversity major with a minor in Sustainability whose goal is to bring positive change to the Southeast in anyway possible.