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3.00 Credits
This multi-disciplinary graduate course examines a range of agro-ecological, philosophical, socio-economic, health, and policy issues in livestock management. Key themes include: comfort and behavior of live animals; grass- and grain-based animal production; animal (and socil and human) nutrition; livestock care; animal (and human) welfare; history of animal production; food safety.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides students with a solid foundation of the principles and applications of GIS, an introduction to the desktop software ArcGIS, and demonstrates its use in the public sectors related to food, agriculture, and resource use. Students will have the flexibility to focus on their particular area of interest through project work.
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3.00 Credits
Students will learn about sustainable agricultural practices that integrate trees and perennial cropping systems. Students will study the Eden Hall Campus in order to design an edible forest garden. They will visit local examples of perennial agriculture systems and complete hands on investigations of best practices for design, planting, and maintenance. Topics will include soil fertility, biodiversity, silvo-pasturing, plant/ fungal relationships, perennial cropping systems and strategies, and forest garden design
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3.00 Credits
Students will explore alternative season extension practices used in cold season production and compare the opportunities available to local farmers who choose to adopt season extension practices. Through class lectures and assignments students will learn the essentials of healthy soil, pest and disease identification, planting, harvesting and marketing opportunities available to sustainable farmers. Through working on Chatham's Eden Hall Farm as well as neighboring farms, students will integrate best practices for sustainable greenhouse growing with theory presented in class.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
Students explore alternative agriculture practices used in farm management and compare local alternatives such as "Certified Organic", "Certified Naturally Grown', "Permaculture" and "Biodnamic" practices. Through class lectures and assignments students will learn to fulfill requirements for organic certification. Exploration of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) will provide a cultural and historical focus for this course.
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3.00 Credits
Course explores natural systems, aboriginal knowledge and best practices for designing human systems, which reflect care of the earth. It integrates findings of agriculture, horticulture, ecology, alternative energy, community design and green building. Students learn methods of growing and living sustainably, with local examples and applications of permaculture design for Eden Hall.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to arboriculture, tree climbing and pruning. The class will teach proper tree pruning and the basics of climbing, as well as basic equipment safety, applicable to tree work in urban or agricultural settings, and an introduction to work as an arborist.
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3.00 Credits
The course takes place on campus and in Rome, exploring the Med Diet and research revealing its role in health promotion and disease prevention. Through field trips, food preparation and lectures from Italian experts, students experience Med Diet related food and culture. Students analyze their American and Italian eating patterns.
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3.00 Credits
Students work collectively to collaborate with one client on a real world problem to provide an analysis of a complex food-related public policy issue. Projects include business plan for food-based social enterprise; production/distribution models for urban farm operations; researching solutions for bringing fresh food into low-income, historically disadvantaged communities.
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