[PDF][PDF] Land trusts and beginning farmers' access to land: exploring the relationships in coastal California

J Beckett, RE Galt - Journal of Agriculture Food Systems and …, 2013 - escholarship.org
This paper examines relationships between beginner farmers and land trusts in Coastal
California. Set within the context of land consolidation in agriculture and increasing land …

Evidence for experiential learning in undergraduate teaching farm courses

M Mazurkewicz, A Harder, TG Roberts - Journal of Agricultural …, 2012 - jae-online.org
Higher education institutions are attempting to use teaching farms to provide hands-on
learning experiences to students, but there is a lack of research on the degree of cognitive …

Tuning stakeholder expectations in organic strawberry production–A sixteen-year case study of co-development of a strawberry knowledge network in California

K Kalaitzoglou, JJ Muramoto, A Dubois… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
Californian strawberry growers have been relying on methyl bromide for several decades.
Notwithstanding the substantial dependence on this broad-spectrum biocide, a phase out …

Transformative learning to promote transformative evaluation of food system praxis

D Otieno, K Niewolny, T Archibald, T Schenk… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Evaluation ideally plays an important role in determining the value and impact of community
food system initiatives and movements, providing recommendations for informed decision …

Growing farming heroes? Politics of imaginaries within farmer training programs in California

L Argüelles - Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
As sustainable agriculture turns in fashion, it becomes a contested territory between social
movements and institutionality. In this article I analyze how three popular imaginaries …

The impacts of agroecology training within and beyond farmer training

JML Laforge, CZ Levkoe - Handbook on the human impact of …, 2021 - elgaronline.com
Throughout history, farmers and peasants across the globe have used their experiential
knowledge of ecological systems to support social and environmental justice while (re) …

An immersive, comparative approach to experiential learning in food studies education

N Lehrer - Agriculture and Human Values, 2024 - Springer
Experiential learning in food and agricultural higher education takes many different forms.
This paper highlights an immersive, comparative approach to a graduate food studies …

Growing new farmers: A survey of farm incubator programs in the United States

MA Overton - 2014 - search.proquest.com
US agriculture is in the midst of significant structural change. Researchers estimate that 70%
of private farmland in the US will change hands over the next 20 years, and a new …

[PDF][PDF] Exploring the barriers to entry to agriculture: Challenges facing beginning farmers in North Carolina

K Robbins-Thompson - Duke University, 2019 - dukespace.lib.duke.edu
Agriculture is inextricably linked to issues of hunger, food security, and the environment. As
our global population grows, food demand grows with it. Modern food systems—which are …

Generational Continuity of Small Dairy Farms In Southern Idaho: An Exploration of Programs To Help Them Stay in Business

M de Haro Marti, H Sivula, M Overton… - Journal of Rural …, 2023 - journals.brandonu.ca
The loss of small-size farms is a critical issue facing farming communities across the United
States. The Magic Valley, Idaho, is one of the largest dairy-producing regions in the country …