Fields of Learning - Frederick L Kirschenmann

Fields of Learning

The Student Farm Movement in North America
Buch | Softcover
376 Seiten
2022
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-8718-1 (ISBN)
33,65 inkl. MwSt
The first book that profiles the rapid expansion of the student and campus farm movement.
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. 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.

Laura Sayre is a writer and translator (French to English). A part-time farmer, she manages 20 acres in western Massachusetts and is on the board of the North Amherst Community Farm. Sean Clark is Clarence M. Clark Chair in Mountain Agriculture and professor of Agriculture and Natural Resources at Berea College in Kentucky. 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

Introduction
Berea College (1871)
Wilmington College (1946)
Sterling College (1962)
Evergreen State College (1972)
University of Oregon (1976)
University of California, Davis (1977)
Hampshire College (1978)
University of Maine (1994)
Central Caro

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 48 b&w halftones, 1 map, 1 line drawing, 1 chart, 3 tables
Verlagsort Lexington
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Weitere Fachgebiete Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10 0-8131-8718-4 / 0813187184
ISBN-13 978-0-8131-8718-1 / 9780813187181
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