The Cornell Cooperative Extension Experience Mari Hayashi and Maureen McCoy
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The Cornell Cooperative Extension ExperienceMari Hayashi and Maureen McCoy
• “Students will be encouraged to work across departments to gain a greater understanding of how nutrition, agriculture, and youth development all contribute to creating healthier communities.”
Mission Statement: Course Connections:
High Tunnel Greenhouse
• Robert Coles The Call of Service: A Witness to Idealism
• Paul Loeb Soul of a Citizen: Living Life with Conviction
• Discussed the differences between individual vs. collective action, and how they interact to benefit a cause
• How is my shoveling cow manure beneficial to the CCE’s operation?
• Tasks: planting seeds, assisting with “sugaring” process, helped with beginning construction on new classroom, assemble fences in sheep pasture