On the pages of the
Cultivating Success™ "Scrapbook", we invite you to explore and share in our
community connections.
Read what the local
media has to say about Cultivating Success™, tour
our photo albums of past courses, events and
participating farms, and visit links which have
been selected to help you find information on sustainable agriculture.
*Course Instructors! Have success stories, photos, or experiences you'd like to
share?
Email them to us and we'll put them on the
student and scrapbook pages!*
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What is
"Community-Based Education?"
We call Cultivating
Success™ a "community-based education program," but what does that mean?
- It means we develop
our program based on the needs of farmers, ranchers, students and
educators in our region.
- It means that we
utilize community resources as powerful education tools. For example,
local producers are in turn guest speakers, farm tour hosts, and mentors
for on-farm apprentices.
It means that we have
an extensive network of educators, university faculty, like-minded
nonprofit groups and community support to help us create the most
effective courses and programs for those who have expressed a need for
our services.
Past Courses
in Cultivating SuccessTM
Science, Society and
Sustainable Food Systems
was developed to
provide a basic understanding of food systems, the role of science in our
food systems, and issues of sustainability. The course allowed
students to explore the broad
view of food and farming systems at the individual, community, society and
ecosystem levels. Topics included environmental issues in
sustainable agriculture and food production, pesticides, fertilizers,
organic wastes, biotechnology, quality of life, and risk-benefit
assessment. This
course is no longer available, to learn more about previous offerings of
this course please visit the instructor's website:
http://classes.css.wsu.edu/soils150/
Download the syllabus
Download the Learning Goal
Summary
Download the
Practicum Info
Download the
fall 2004 class schedule
Download the fall 2003 class
schedule
Download the course resource list
