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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Students' Farm Journal
Author: Fields of Learning
Author: Laura SayrePublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813140293
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
“Essays from staff on 15 farms . . . illustrate the trials, tribulations and sheer joys of establishing and maintaining such enterprises.” —USA Today 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. 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. “A timely and hopeful book.” —Jason Peters, editor of Wendell Berry: Life and Work “The opportunity for students to spend time learning on campus farms is not just a good idea—it should be mandatory.” —Gary Hirshberg, President & CEO, Stonyfield Farm “An excellent book, useful for anyone interested in the past, or the future, of the student farm movement.” —Journal of Agricultural & Food Information
Farm Anatomy
Author: Julia RothmanPublisher: Storey Publishing
ISBN: 1603429816
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Learn the difference between a farrow and a barrow, and what distinguishes a weanling from a yearling. Country and city mice alike will delight in Julia Rothman’s charming illustrated guide to the curious parts and pieces of rural living. Dissecting everything from the shapes of squash varieties to how a barn is constructed and what makes up a beehive to crop rotation patterns, Rothman gives a richly entertaining tour of the quirky details of country life.
1972 Farm Journal
Author: Oakes PlimptonPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1450261922
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
1972 Farm Journal is a transcription of a journal the writer kept that summer living on a communal organic farm in central New York State. Every day's entry is about the ins and outs of the farming venture -- machinery operation and break down, success and failure in planting vegetables and marketing them, relations between the people, particularly relations between the sexes, relations with the local people who came with beer to offer advice, and to see what's up! Added is the other partners memories and present situations. We had a 36th year reunion in 2008, for one of the communal partners still owns the farm. Photographs then and now.
Farm Journal
Author: Life on the Farm
Author: J. CrowleyPublisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781794027381
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
A journal for recording life on the farm. Farm life is an adventure every day. Each day is full of surprises and valuable lessons. Help your children to get the most of those lessons and to deal with frustrations in a healthy way with this journal.The doodle box promotes creativity while the lined pages record thoughts and experiences. Use this journal for daily or weekly summaries. Use it to record specific projects or experiences. This journal can be used specifically as a gratitude journal allowing children to draw and write what they are grateful for. How this journal is used is up to each family, but all will see the benefit. Get you children journaling and watch them grow!Life on the Farm: A Farm Journal for Kids is perfect for: -Gifts for farm boys-Gifts for farm girls-Gifts for farming families
Farm Journal
Author: The Pennsylvania Farm Journal
Author: Pennsylvania Farm Journal
Author: Transforming Agricultural Education for a Changing World
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309132215
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
During the next ten years, colleges of agriculture will be challenged to transform their role in higher education and their relationship to the evolving global food and agricultural enterprise. If successful, agriculture colleges will emerge as an important venue for scholars and stakeholders to address some of the most complex and urgent problems facing society. Such a transformation could reestablish and sustain the historical position of the college of agriculture as a cornerstone institution in academe, but for that to occur, a rapid and concerted effort by our higher education system is needed to shape their academic focus around the reality of issues that define the world's systems of food and agriculture and to refashion the way in which they foster knowledge of those complex systems in their students. Although there is no single approach to transforming agricultural education, a commitment to change is imperative.