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The Limited Campus Garden: A Response To "Putting Down Roots: Why Universities Need Gardens", Brandon Hoover
The Limited Campus Garden: A Response To "Putting Down Roots: Why Universities Need Gardens", Brandon Hoover
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The purpose of higher education has been argued for centuries, and is currently on the hot seat in public discourse for its high costs and debt in the midst of wage stagnation and reduced upward mobility. The response to this hot seat has been for increased attention to the role of higher education in job training to better help increase economic mobility. Jack R. Baker and Jeffery Bilbro in their article "Putting Down Roots: Why Universities Need Gardens" join many other scholars by adding an alternative voice to the conversation, a voice rooted in place homemaking and redemption, rather than …
Campus Agriculture Education: Educating Food Citizens Or Producers?, Brandon Hoover, Lindsey Macdonald
Campus Agriculture Education: Educating Food Citizens Or Producers?, Brandon Hoover, Lindsey Macdonald
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Colleges and Universities around the U.S. have quietly invested in campus agricultural projects (CAPs) as interdisciplinary space for sustainability and food system education. In 2009, the College Sustainability Report Card showed that 29 percent of college campuses had some sort of campus farm or garden (Sustainable Endowments Institute, 2009). Agricultural education is no longer limited to traditional land grant research farms. CAPs have emerged in small and large, vocational and liberal arts institutions; but what role do these programs truly play in educating future farmers and food system professionals? Is preparing students for a career in the food system a …
White Spaces In Black And Latino Places: Urban Agriculture And Food Sovereignty, Brandon Hoover
White Spaces In Black And Latino Places: Urban Agriculture And Food Sovereignty, Brandon Hoover
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In recent years urban agriculture has gained the attention of policy-makers, social organizers, and academics alike. This new wave of work and attention focuses on projects that ameliorate issues ranging from food insecurity to urban blight, and environmental degradation to the subversion of industrial food production. These projects consist of a variation of community gardens, educational programs, demonstration farms, and entrepreneurial production farms (I will identify all of these under the umbrella of urban agriculture (UA)). However, by simply studying the social impact of UA, researchers fail to consider who the active agent is in social change; this results in …