Required of all 2-year students majoring in Sustainable Food and Farming. Three-to-five months cooperative work training in the specific field of study; reports required.

A weekly discussion exploring the root causes of excessive food waste as well as sustainable solutions including; avoiding of the generation of excess, feeding people in need, livestock feed, industrial uses, and composting.

To introduce the kingdom of fungi and explore how we can integrate fungi into our lives. Students will learn skills to find, identify, and cultivate mushrooms. The class will explore different methods of cultivation with varying levels of experience and equipment needed.

Offers students deepened understanding of forest gardens, with a focus on northeast temperate climates. This course will use readings, field trips, hands on learning at the Agriculture Learning Center and in class exercises to explore the
resilience and benefits of forest systems and how we would tweak them for the creation of forest gardens.

Selected research problems not related to a candidate's Master's thesis.

This course provides an understanding of the behavioral mechanisms involved with human and horse interaction and a model of training based on equine behavior, ecology and learning theory. The welfare consequences of training and competing with horses involved in different disciplines are discussed. This course will help you to better understand how the study of equine behavior theory informs successful behavioral modification or training.

Biology and identification of soil nematodes. Parasitism of plants and management practices stressed.

Biology and identification of soil nematodes. Parasitism of plants and management practices stressed.

In this hands-on class students will learn about permaculture basics while maintaining our on-campus permaculture demonstration gardens.