Organization: Denver Green School Website: www.denvergreenschool.org
Denver Green School: Dirt Into Abundance
As a school built around the idea of sustainability, Denver Green School immediately embraced a garden program as a way to learn “about stewardship of the earth, …

Organization: Sparta Elementary School Website: http://www.alleghany.k12.nc.us/ses/
Sparta Elementary School: Growing Goodness on the Go
The folks at Sparta Elementary in Sparta, NC, came up with a great idea for growing goodness on the go.  Cecilia, a teacher in the …

Organization: Brown Elementary School Website: http://brown.jpsms.org/
Brown Elementary School: From Seed to Table
Alex, a FoodCorps volunteer managing the garden at Brown Elementary School in Jackson, Mississippi told us that healthy eating was the focus of their …

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School: Michigan State
PhD candidate in Horticulture
“By enabling farmers to obtain more efficient use of farming inputs, we will be able to decrease the overall costs of operation, which will inevitably be passed onto consumers through lower prices. …

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School: UC Santa Cruz
PhD Candidate in Environmental Studies
“I conceptualize sustainable agriculture as a conversion process that starts with reducing environmentally and human healthy-adverse inputs such as synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. The process …

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School: UC Berkeley
PhD candidate in Environmental Science, Policy & Management
“My vision of sustainable agriculture is one in which agricultural practices enhance ecosystem functioning while also providing healthy food for communities. Integration of …

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School: UC Santa Cruz
PhD candidate in Environmental Studies
“Sustainable agriculture represents an interdependent, dynamic process, not a static means to an end. This process includes everything from the living soil to the farmer to the consumer. Our …

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School: Michigan State University
Year: Junior
Major: Horticulture
“For me, organic and sustainable food systems are about respect; respect for ourselves, respect for the earth that nurtures us, and respect for the other living things that we have the …

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School: UC Berkeley
Year: Junior
Major: Conservation and Resource Studies
“To me, sustainability is a relationship with the earth. It is a type of caring that one gives to the soil, roots, worms, branches, everything. I think that humans can be part of a …

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School: Pitzer College
Year: Junior
Major: Philosophy, Community Agriculture
“I believe sustainable agriculture and the idea of working with the ecosystem, rather than this machismo simplistic ideology of domination, epitomized by chemical agriculture …