Originally published in 2011, Fields of Learning remains the single best resource for students, faculty, and administrators involved in starting or supporting campus farms. Featuring detailed profiles of fifteen diverse student farms on college and university campuses across North America, the book also serves as a history of the student farm movement, showing how the idea of campus farms has come in and out of fashion over the past century and how the tenacious work of students, faculty, and other campus community members has upheld and reimagined the objectives of student farming over time. Ranging in size from less than an acre to hundreds of acres, supplying food to campus dining halls or community food banks, and hosting scientific research projects or youth education programs, student farms highlight the interdisciplinary richness and multifunctionality of agriculture, supporting academic work across a range of fields while simultaneously building community engagement and stimulating critical conversations about environmental and social justice. Sayre’s introductory chapter describes some of the dilemmas and implications of student farming, while a concluding chapter provides step-by-step guidelines to starting a student farm. Today, as institutions of higher learning face new challenges linked to the global climate crisis and public health emergency, this book holds continued relevance for readers in North America and beyond.
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1. Introduction: The Student Farm Movement in Context
2. Berea College (1871): The Work College Legacy
3. Wilmington College (1946): Balancing Education and Profitability
4. Sterling College (1962): Working Hands, Working Minds
5. Evergreen State College (1972): Interdisciplinary Studies in Sustainable Agriculture
6. University of Oregon (1976): Designing for Change
7. University of California, Davis (1977): Moving from the Marginstoward the Center
8. Hampshire College (1978): The Agricultural Liberal Arts
9. University of Maine (1994): Majoring in Sustainable Ag
10. Central Carolina Community College (1995): Growing New Farmers
11. Prescott College (1996): Agroecology as the Cultivation of Soil and Mind
12. University of Montana (1997): Agriculturally Supported Community
13. University of British Columbia (2000): The Improbable Farmin the World City
14. New Mexico State University (2002): Planting an OASIS
15. Michigan State University (2003): Four-Season Student Farming
16. Yale University (2003): A Well-Rounded Education
17. Conclusion: Starting a Student Farm
Giới thiệu về tác giả
Frederick L. Kirschenmann, Distinguished Fellow at the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture in Ames, Iowa, and president of the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture at Pocantico Hills, New York, has published articles in many books including Farm Aid: A Song For America and Sustainable Agroecosystem Management. He lives in Ames, Iowa.
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