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ENVS 23000 - Sustainable Agriculture: Theory/Practice

Course Credit: 1
SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE: THEORY AND PRACTICE Agroecology is the science of sustainable agriculture. It serves as the scientific basis for devising more natural, less environmentally harmful farming practices that build soil fertility and plant resilience while maintaining adequate production levels. The goal of this course is to introduce students to a broad suite of sustainable agriculture principles and practices and to investigate the scienti?c basis for those practices. Students will learn agroecology techniques by actually practicing them in the campus Learning Garden. Students registering for the course are required to simultaneously register for ENVS 23000L: the associated lab. Annually.