'Popovers for Pigs' helps green up famous Acadia National Park restaurant (CS Monitor)

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'Popovers for Pigs' helps green up famous Acadia National Park restaurant

'Popovers for Pigs' is just one of the many environmental initiatives undertaken by Jordan Pond House, the only restaurant to operate inside Acadia National Park on the scenic seacoast of Maine.

By Cathryn J. Prince, Correspondent / July 31, 2012
Bar Harbor, Maine



At the Jordan Pond House, if a popover doesn’t make it from oven to table in 15 minutes, it’s toast.

Each season two local pig farmers collect more than 20,000 pounds of uneaten popovers from the famed tea house to use as animal feed.

Known as “Popovers for Pigs” this program is just one example of the many environmental steps undertaken by the only restaurant to operate inside Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island along the seacoast of Maine.

More than 2,000 people a day dine at the restaurant, whose lawn tables and chairs face Jordan Pond and the Bubble Mountains. Cadillac and Sargent Mountains rise on either side of the pond. The pristine scenery lends an "Alice in Wonderland"-like feel to the restaurant.

With so many pairs of feet walking through, the restaurant decided to act.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/Change-Agent/2012/0731/Popovers-for-Pigs-helps-green-up-famous-Acadia-National-Park-restaurant

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1. Nice place and I like the idea of feeding popovers to pigs.