{"id":67,"date":"2023-06-30T23:26:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T23:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nehsjc.org\/theeclipse\/?p=67"},"modified":"2023-07-01T01:08:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T01:08:26","slug":"how-basil-tree-became-a-veteran-on-the-sustainability-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/theeclipse\/2023\/06\/30\/how-basil-tree-became-a-veteran-on-the-sustainability-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"How Basil Tree became a veteran on the sustainability scene"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Caroline Agola<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Val Shulock never attended culinary school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet for more than 35 years she has been the owner of Basil Tree Catering, a sustainable food service company in Cambridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In graduate school at Brandeis University, Shulock was assigned a class project to design a hypothetical business model. She decided to create an eco-friendly catering service. Her department head was ecstatic about the idea and advised Shulock to carry out the concept. Shulock agreed and, in 1987, founded Basil Tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full story below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<script id=\"asp-embed-script\" data-zindex=\"1000000\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/express.adobe.com\/page-embed.js\"><\/script><a class=\"asp-embed-link\" href=\"https:\/\/express.adobe.com\/page\/V08HvdiQ5Y3TV\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/express.adobe.com\/page\/V08HvdiQ5Y3TV\/embed.jpg?buster=1688167563987\" alt=\"Basil Tree-a veteran on the sustainability scene\" style=\"width:100%\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe combination of trying to use eco-friendly materials and also trying to supply with local products is challenging.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/theeclipse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/theeclipse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/theeclipse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/theeclipse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/theeclipse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/theeclipse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/theeclipse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/theeclipse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/theeclipse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/theeclipse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/theeclipse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}