Where will the next generation of farmers come from?
What will their farms look like? Fields of Learning: The
Student Farm Movement in North America provides a concrete set
of answers to these urgent questions, describing how, at a wide range
of colleges and universities across the United States and Canada,
students, faculty, and staff have joined together to establish
on-campus farms as outdoor laboratories for agricultural and cultural
education.
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From one-acre
gardens to five-hundred-acre crop and livestock farms,
student farms foster hands-on food-system literacy in a world where the
shortcomings of input-intensive conventional agriculture have become
increasingly apparent. They provide a context in which
disciplinary boundaries are bridged,
intellectual and manual skills are cultivated together, and abstract
ideas about sustainability are put to the test. |
Editors Laura Sayre and Sean Clark have assembled a volume of essays
written by pioneering educators directly involved in the founding and
management of fifteen of the most influential student farms in North
America.
Arranged chronologically, Fields of Learning
illustrates how the student farm movement originated in the nineteenth
century, gained ground in the 1970s, and is flourishing today -- from
the University of California--Davis to Yale University, from Hampshire
College to Central Carolina Community College, from the University of
Montana to the University of Maine.
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Fields of Learning
The Student Farm Movement in North America
by Laura Sayre and Sean Clark
The
University Press of Kentucky,
2011
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