Classes

Summer Session 2008

ENV 303 101 Photo of students gardening
ISSUES IN ENVIRONMENTAL STUDY
Title: Recovering Traditional Food to Heal the People and the Earth
Instructor: Guy Wolf
Meets: MTWH 7:45 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
3 Credits
Duration: 5/27/2008 - 8/15/2008
Special course fee: $15.00
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The class engages students in land stewardship and gardening, with special attention paid to the planting, collecting, harvesting, and cooking of traditional open pollinated seeds and wild edible plants. The class is co-taught with two graduate students, one Hmong and the other Ojibwe.

Growing food is the centerpiece of the indigenous relationship that ties birth to land for Hmong and Native American communities. This interdisciplinary course examines the advent of industrial agriculture, biotechnology, and globalization and their impacts on human health and the environment. Students learned how indigenous communities are restoring spiritual practices related to food and how growing food sustainably can strengthen community health, sovereignty, and self-determination.