Community Supported Agriculture ((4 Credits))

Catalog description

Community Supported Agriculture holds great promise for reviving parts of rural America, providing a sustainable model of agriculture, and delivering high quality food to families.  Students will learn about differences between community supported agriculture and other modern farming business and agricultural practices and techniques.  Students will investigate different business models for community supported agriculture and how this approach to farming developed.  Students will examine the benefits and challenges of this approach to food production and consider various ways in which community supported agriculture is beneficial to the environment, individuals and communities. This course integrates learning from business and economics, agricultural science and ecology in the study of community supported agriculture. Prerequisites: . Solid writing and research skills.