How can college students get food that was produced in an environmentally safe way and fair trade?

Again, college students have limited resources, especially when it comes to money. So how do can college students buy organic and fair trade products when they cost so much more than products that are not?
For on-campus diners who eat their meals primarily in the cafeteria, students can organize to convince the cafeteria management to purchase better food that is eco-friendly and fair trade. Students can request specific food changes such as having more locally grown food, cage free eggs, organic produce, etc. If enough students want it, perhaps the dining hall will see the cost benefits.
If the cafeteria management does not respond to student requests, personal food choices can help make a difference individually. Discovery created a Planet Green website for college students and shares ideas for students to make more eco-friendly personal choices in the college cafeteria. For example, they suggest not using trays to cut back on extra food waste and water usage to clean the trays. The Planet Green website reported that a study by the Seminar in Environmental Issues class at American University found that “students that did not have cafeteria trays in the lunchroom wasted 14.4% less food than those that did, and a remarkable 47.1% less at dinner.” Exotic foods like bananas, coffee and tea are all tropically grown, and they cost a lot to transport to other areas of the world. The meat and dairy industry produces food items that should be avoided as much as possible because “livestock production accounts for 55 percent of the erosion process, 37 percent of pesticides applied, 50 percent of antibiotics consumed, and a third of total discharged nitrogen and phosphorus into surface water” (Discovery, Planet Green).
If college students can find the space and enough interest, community gardens are an option for producing food that is local and organic. Students can work on this project together creating community and food products that are healthy.
For students living off campus who don’t necessarily eat at the campus dining hall (as not all colleges have dining halls), farmer’s markets are the best place to find food grown locally. This also allows the consumer to know exactly who grows their food and how it is grown.