ANTH 315 Service-LearningAt — Arboretum and Botanical Garden at Cal State Fullerton

Culture and Nutrition (ANTH 315) Service Learning

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Service learning students will participate in:

1)? ??Farm tasks (soil augmentation, weeding, harvesting, planting, irrigation) and connections will be made to nutrient cycling, integrated pest management, biological control, food security, food sovereignty, and nutritional sufficiency.

2)?????Data collection to measure plant growth, harvest weights, and water usage. This will allow us to estimate farm productivity and contrast it with food production techniques across time and space.

3)??? Community engagement through working together with staff from Monkey Business Caf? to understand the farm to fork I-CAN project as a community food system designed to improve environmental, economic, social, and nutritional health.

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Participating students will track their service learning hours (total of 20 hours over the semester) using the Toggl time tracking app (free and available for Androids and iPhones). Time data will be collected by activity state (soil augmentation, weeding, harvesting, planting, irrigation, and data collection) so that we may discuss human capital as additional input and output of urban agriculture.?