This project aims to create more accessible pathways for students to engage with the practice and principles of Agroecology outside the classroom, without barriers-to-entry (be it financial, social, or physical). It hopes to foster a critical community, which challenges the predominant industrial framework of agriculture, and reimagines student relationships to land and local communities.
In order to realize these goals, it intends to create a digital Agroecological Action Resource Center (AARC) along with an Agroecology Action Group - Agroecology...
The primary goal of this project is to expand student participation in farmworker justice research and to provide interested undergraduate students with the opportunity to engage with farmworker communities in the broader Bay Area. Through this project, students will acquire hands-on experience with environmental justice research methods and practice as they travel to farmworker communities, participate in local advocacy and community building efforts, and conduct interviews with workers to learn more about their experiences with climate changes. The goal is to...
Interns will be hired to investigate and promote the long-term financial and environmental viability of the BSFC. The four positions will be Storefront Sustainability intern, Real Food Advocacy intern, Community Relations intern, and Financial Viability intern.
The SOGA Intern Program provides the student organic garden with a continuity of management during the summer season, which will support continued education outreach and garden maintenance. The program further addresses SOGA's mission of promoting sustainable food systems through hands-on education and community education.
This project aims to combat food insecurity while promoting a zero waste policy, by implementing, via SPARR, a Food Donations program that delivers donated food items to student parents 4 times weekly at the UC Village. Since 2012, this program has revealed the astonishing amount of families struggling with food insecurity, as well as the emotional, psychological, and academic impacts this issue creates.
Phase two of this internship program seeks to extend the impact of full-time garden management beyond summers and into the academic year so as to increase SOGA Garden’s fresh produce donations for the UC Berkeley Student Food Pantry, in addition to its educational offerings.
The UC Gill Tract Community Farm will develop an Agroecological Fellows Program (AFP) for UC Berkeley students through creation of five paid, part-time positions throughout Fall 2016 and Spring 2017. The AFP will provide valuable experiential learning opportunities for the growing number of students interested in food systems, allowing them to become successful change-makers. Implementation of the AFP will significantly increase the Farm’s capacity to expand its food justice goals and accomplish its mission.
This grant will be used by the BSFC expand its in-house food prep as a part of its larger mission to increase sustainable food accessibility to the Berkeley campus and community.
The project has three main sections. (1) Part of the grant would go towards covering a portion of the Student Organic Garden Association’s water bill. Currently, the Department of Environmental Sciences, Policy, and Management (ESPM) covers half the bill and Professor Tim Bowles’ Berkeley Agroecology Lab covers the other portion. Having the Agroecology Lab help cover this expense has become a financial burden on them with their increasingly limited budget. Increasing SOGA’s economic self-sufficiency is the only way they can continue to distribute agroecological...
