Growing Through History
Start Date
April 2024
Location
3rd floor - Library
Abstract
Over the semester break, students in HIST 398: History of Agriculture (Spring 2024) interviewed someone close to them about their relationship to food and farming. Using those conversations as a starting point, they interpreted their individual’s experiences in light of class readings and library research on the history of agriculture to understand more about the historical, economic, cultural and ecological context of the experiences they had heard about.
The result is twenty different stories about families in four different countries relying on food they produced; about transitioning from being farmers to working in other occupations; about growing up on multi-generational farms; about making conscious choices about the food they feed their families; and, about the difficulties of eating well, particularly in less well-off urban communities.
Growing Through History
3rd floor - Library
Over the semester break, students in HIST 398: History of Agriculture (Spring 2024) interviewed someone close to them about their relationship to food and farming. Using those conversations as a starting point, they interpreted their individual’s experiences in light of class readings and library research on the history of agriculture to understand more about the historical, economic, cultural and ecological context of the experiences they had heard about.
The result is twenty different stories about families in four different countries relying on food they produced; about transitioning from being farmers to working in other occupations; about growing up on multi-generational farms; about making conscious choices about the food they feed their families; and, about the difficulties of eating well, particularly in less well-off urban communities.
