Regenerative Agriculture.

Catalog description

This course is designed to be season dependent and will vary with hands-on applications of topics specified in the syllabus. We use regenerative practices whenever possible and at a minimum, sustainable ones. What’s the difference? Sustainable food production maintains the land in its current state, regenerative practices improves the land to make a better environment for all organisms rather than only maintaining it. Our course is for those students interested in understanding the processes of growing food everywhere and support local ecosystems with native plants and how they are interlinked. A hands-on workshop approach will be used and experiments will be conducted outside, in the greenhouse, and the surrounding forest. Topics include but are not limited to; theory and practice of operation/management of a greenhouse and nursery, regenerative food production, native crop plants, rooting substrates, fertilizer formulations and cover crops, no-till methods, composting, and food injustice. We will also be going on field trips off campus. The lab and lecture portions of this course frequently take place in one of our many outdoor instructional spaces. Students are to refer to the applicable semester’s course syllabus for specifics and expectations. Formerly offered as BIO 120.