ENV 965a () / 2024-2025

Regenerative Agriculture & Just Food Systems Lab

Credits: 3 Fall 2024: W, 1:00-3:50, Kroon 319

The Regenerative Agriculture Lab (RAL) capstone is a clinic/lab project-based course for students to work with external businesses and organizations to support a just and thriving agricultural community and food system for people and the planet. The RAL hosts four semester-long projects centered on regenerative and just solutions in agriculture and the food system locally, nationally, and globally. The RAL will engage with deeply challenging questions facing agricultural communities and producer-consumer networks today, encouraged by the prospect that regenerative approaches may hold the promise of repairing long-standing patterns of social, economic, and ecological exploitation.

The RAL will explore and support work in regenerative agriculture and just food
systems such as:
●community and smallholder farmer-centered approaches that are climate resilient and
employ just practices for workers and people
●operational or business planning for land-based agriculture, agroforestry, and/or ocean
farming
●equitable and resilient business models
●reparative finance and investing practices