Fields of Learning: The Student Farm Movement in North America (Culture Of The Land)
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (853 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0813133742 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 378 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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It is timely, relevant, and insightful, and should help restore food production as a multi-disciplinary, intelligent, and highly valued profession."Jim Riddle, Organic Outreach Coordinator, UMN-Southwest Research and Outreach Center""The collection of essaysexplores "the next generation of farmers," offering concrete answers to urgent questions surrounding who will be growing our food and how in the coming generations."Prescott College""Sayre and Clark investigate student farming not only through the lens of sustainability but also as an opportunity for experiential learning, with the capability
. She lives in Dijon, France.Sean Clark teaches in and currently chairs the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources at Berea College in Kentucky. He lives in Berea, Kentucky. Laura Sayre is a postdoctoral researcher with the French National Institute for Agronomic Research and a former senior writer for the Rodale Institute's NewFarm
College Farm Manager This book is a must read for any one involved with the student farm movement. It tells the stories of several school farms written by the people involved including challenges and successes along the way. It is a MUST READ for those thinking of starting a school farm.I work at a College as a Farm Manager and it was both helpful and eye opening to hear so many stories similar to mine. We all face so many of the same issues (financial, administrative support, seasonality) and our programs are
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. 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