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Slow & Steady, Christin Boggs

Theses

Slow & Steady explores the contemporary movement away from mass-produced food and towards creative alternatives that offer vitality and potency to participants and their surroundings. Within the Greater Rochester Region, individuals have rejected convenience food to responsibly grow, prepare and share sustenance in cooperative groups. The photographs in this thesis depict scenes from community gardens, community supported agriculture (CSA) farms, farmers markets, and other organizations associated with local food production. Here exists a community of resourceful people, coming together in pursuit of good food. Slow & Steady points to one of the ways in which art can effect social change …

Zach's News, Georgia Southern University, Zach S. Henderson Library

University Libraries News Online (2008-2023)

• Video from our Farm to Table Dinner
• Scholar Lions in London
• Story of author of "Statesboro Blues' comes home
• EBSCO Changing Default Result Sort Order

Zach's News, Georgia Southern University, Zach S. Henderson Library

University Libraries News Online (2008-2023)

• Farm to Table dinner fund raiser for Library

A Case Study On Contracted Seasonal Workers And Farm Labor Contractors In The Stockton Area, Cristal Verduzco

Agribusiness

This study was conducted to define the current situation between contracted seasonal workers and farm labor contractors in the Stockton area. Specifically, this study focuses on the perception workers have of farm labor contracted employment. It also addresses the perception farm labor contractors have on the contracting business.

To gather the information needed to compare perceptions, interviews with twelve contracted seasonal workers and two farm labor contractors were conducted in Stockton. The analysis process consists of a detailed account of the problems workers and farm labor contractors encounter in the farm labor contracting business.

The results of these interviews concluded …

Economic Analysis: Weeding Techniques For Organic Farms, Steven Daniel Deese

Agribusiness

This study was undertaken to determine the benefits, detriments, and costs of the three main weeding techniques used on organic farms: soil solarization, flame weeding, and hand labor. This study will provide prospective organic farmers with useful information and economic estimates for each method.

This report shows an in depth analysis spreadsheet on the annual costs of flame weeding. The analysis was performed on a 50, 125, and 250 acre basis. The spreadsheet breaks down the ownership and operating costs for each acreage analysis. The soil solarization analysis was taken from a University of California Davis cost study. In addition, …

School Farm Laboratory At Orestimba High School - Graduate Internship, Lauren S. Stroud

Agricultural Education: Graduate Internship Reports

The internship included the development of a school farm laboratory on a two-acre site at Orestimba High School in Newman, California. In addition to developing a step-by-step guide to completing the project, the report includes validation documents relative to meeting the quality criteria for secondary programs of agricultural education.