Organized around the triad, Production, Protection, and Provisioning, the summer Field School in Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems provides students with field-tested skills and knowledge necessary to engage in ecologically informed farming and food systems practices in a world facing systemic challenges. Students will engage for 10 weeks, rooted by a weekly Whole Farm Thinking exercises and activities that ground participants in a discussion of current events on the Sterling Farm, other local farms, and in larger regional and global food systems. The other courses included in the suite include Holistic Livestock Husbandry, Introduction to Crop Production Systems, and Local Food Systems. Combining these courses in flowing, integrative manner, the Field School counts for 12 credit hours and is a core requirement in the Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems major.
Course Faculty
Nick Hammond
Nick grew up on his family’s organic farm in Vermont and has always felt like his most authentic self living and working with animals. At the age of 4 he…
Tiana Baca
Tiana is a queer, multiracial, Latinx farmer, educator, and seed steward born and raised in New Mexico on unceded Tiwa territory. Driven by a passion for plants and a love…
Gwyneth Harris
Gwyneth has been gardening for as long as she can remember, and got her first livestock (a goat named “Creamy”) at the age of 5. Thirty-five years later, she still finds…
Azsa Grenier
Before joining the RFC team, Azsa Greiner lived with her family in northern Wisconsin for the past 15 years, where she ran her own farm focusing on small livestock meat…
