JoinUsing a Small-Scale Demonstration Farm as a Teaching Arena in Biology and Environmental Science: Learning Ecological Principles While Growing Food
Small-scale sustainable agriculture is a rich, vibrant arena for teaching and learning. This article features a farm used to teach students in a course on environmental education. Farm research is relatively easy to plan and conduct, and it provides students with a scientific research experience that involves the practical activity of growing food, while learning about farming methods that depend upon ecological knowledge.