Agricultural Field Trip Essay

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Field Trip to the FGCU Food Forest

If you are not local to this site (within an hour), please email an option close to you that has the same trip objectives. If you are excused from in person field trips, please provide your note from adaptive services. Although, all the sites are carefully chosen to be ADA compliant and accessible.

This field trip consists of learning about the FGCU food forest and gaining an understanding of what the food forest does and why. You’ll get an understand of regenerative agriculture as a comparison to industrial agriculture.

You’ll probably notice that some of the questions in the food forest prompt are the same as the food discussion you just completed. That is intentional. You can certainly use the same responses but my hope is folks do change them a bit once they have seen the food forest and additional materials this week and reflect a bit. Or perhaps use the same answers but maybe add your additional thoughts or ah ha moment. Enjoy your field trip!

Watch the following video for the field trip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx0yntXMtgI

Visit the following website to learn more:

https://www.fgcu.edu/cas/communityimpact/foodforest/

Read Food Forest Talking Points This would be tour I would give if I were with you in person. As you move through the food forest stops try and imagine me there with you!

Write a Field Trip Journal around the following prompts-
Your journal will take the form of a 3-4 page word document including detailed answers to the prompt question. Double-spaced with 12-point font, and will be submitted through the assignment in Canvas. Submit as a word document or PDF. Google docs or .pages is not acceptable.

Your journal will be graded using a rubric that considers the following :Ecological literacy demonstrated by answering the prompt questions, importance of the site, personal contribution (your thoughts), mechanics, and connections to course readings and concepts. Please review the longer, detailed description of these rubric criteria under the assignment rubric. Be sure to include photos to enhance and support ideas.

Consider some of these questions you addressed in the discussion and how you may have a slightly different response now that you have visited the food forest and have an understanding of permaculture.

Describe the history and development of the FGCU food forest.
What are some of the underlying principles which guide the food forest?
What are some of the plants grown and the benefits of choosing these?
How does food production in this manner relate to sustainability?
How can commercial agriculture incorporate some of the ideas from permaculture? How about you in your everyday life?
How do the concepts from zero waste video enhance your ability to make changes in your everyday life?
From the chapter, what do you feel is the most significant impact in our current agricultural system and why?
How does environment, equity and economy all play into our food systems?
While mono cultures produce high quantities of one product what are the negative aspects of only growing a single crop? How is the food forest different?
Environmental activist, Vandana Shiva, states “The lesson from biodiversity is co-operation, not competition” What do you think she means by this?
Besides the popular label of “Organic” how else do you define food that is sustainable and what are its characteristics?
Include 3 photos of yourself one the trails, including one by the entrance sign to the food forest

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