Sustainable Community Food System (SCFS)

Sustainable Community Food Systems offers students a unique opportunity to connect theory and practice through classroom-based work, service learning, and hands-on experiences in the local community. Focusing specifically on the issues of food sustainability, environmentalism, and social justice, students gain vital skills that will enable them to become leaders in society’s slow and contentious but ongoing shift to a more equitable, just, and sustainable future.

Community partners

Commercially Licensed Co-operative Kitchen (CLiCK)

Funding agency

SCFS Minor has grant funding from USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) to sponsor student summer internships

Scope

In-State

Keywords

internship, food, sustainability, social justice, minor, immersion, community, farming