Fields of learning : the student farm movement in North America /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sayre, Laura Browne, 1970-, Clark, Sean
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©2011.
Colección:Culture of the land.
Temas:
School farms > United States.
Agricultural students > United States.
Agricultural education > United States.
Agricultural colleges > United States.
Agriculture > Fieldwork > United States.
School farms > Canada.
Agricultural students > Canada.
Agricultural education > Canada.
Agricultural colleges > Canada.
Agriculture > Fieldwork > Canada.
Écoles pratiques d'agriculture > États-Unis.
Étudiants en agriculture > États-Unis.
Enseignement agricole > États-Unis.
Écoles d'agriculture > États-Unis.
Agriculture > Recherche sur le terrain > États-Unis.
Écoles pratiques d'agriculture > Canada.
Étudiants en agriculture > Canada.
Enseignement agricole > Canada.
Écoles d'agriculture > Canada.
Agriculture > Recherche sur le terrain > Canada.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Agronomy > Crop Science.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Agronomy > General.
NATURE > Natural Resources.
Agricultural colleges
Agricultural education
Agricultural students
School farms
Canada
United States
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Roots. Berea College (1871) : the work college legacy / Sean Clark
  • Wilmington College (1946) : balancing education and profitability / Monte R. Anderson and Roy Joe Stuckey
  • Sterling College (1962) : working hands, working minds / Julia Shipley
  • Back to the land. Evergreen State College (1972) : interdisciplinary studies in sustainable agriculture / Stephen Bramwell, Martha Rosemeyer, and Melissa Barker
  • University of Oregon (1976) : designing for change / Ann Bettman
  • University of California, Davis (1977) : moving from the margins toward the center / Mark Van Horn
  • Hampshire College (1978) : the agricultural liberal arts / Lorna Coppinger and Ray Coppinger
  • Coming of age. University of Maine (1994) : majoring in sustainable ag / Marianne Sarrantonio
  • Central Carolina Community College (1995) : growing new farmers / Robin Kohanowich
  • Prescott College (1996) : agroecology as the cultivation of soil and mind / Tim Crews
  • University of Montana (1997) : agriculturally supported community / Josh Slotnick
  • New directions. University of British Columbia (2000) : the improbable farm in the world city / Mark Bomford
  • New Mexico State University (2002) : planting an OASIS / Constance L. Falk and Pauline Pao
  • Michigan State University (2003) : four-season student farming / John Biernbaum
  • Yale University (2003) : a well-rounded education / Melina Shannon-DiPietro
  • Conclusion: Starting a student farm / Laura Sayre and Sean Clark
  • Appendix: An inventory of student farm projects in the United States and Canada.

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