Program Overview
During this intensive course, we investigate how food production and diet are linked to geography, socioeconomic status, race and politics. By studying the inequities, exploitation and environmental costs in our food systems, students learn to identify the powers perpetuating them, and how these forces could be disrupted in order to reinstate just and sustainable food systems. Through conversations with experts, intensive case studies, and collaborative meaning-building activities, students are exposed to the many different facets of our relationship to food. We conclude the course by selecting an avenue for action, and assisting each other to imagine how we could contribute our skills and talents to contribute to the food justice movement.
Program Highlights
- Incredible guest speakers working towards more sustainable food systems
- Cooking demonstrations
- Local food access mapping project
- Food culture exchange and discovery
- Conversations about food as medicine, food sovereignty, and the future of farming
What will we explore?
Food Systems
Students get a grasp of the many stages in modern industrial food production, discovering the true environmental and human costs of government-subsidized chemical monocultures in order to better appreciate sustainable alternatives.
Sustainable Farming
Students meet food cultivators who are integrating new technology and ancient practices to produce food sustainably and affordably.
Food Justice
Students learn of the many different ways in which our food systems contribute to racial, economic, and social inequality and learn about activist movements and how to support them.