In this class we will dig our minds and hands into issues and projects connected to our local food system to:

• Create, and develop marketing and outlets for, a student microgreen enterprise.
• Establish a community garden for refugee families.
• Support a new farmers’ market in West Baltimore to improve healthy food access in that community.
• Design and install an edible, perennial landscape at the UMBC Garden.
• Develop UMBC and K12 partners for a “Climate Change Monitoring Garden.”
• Collaborate with the Baltimore Orchard Project’s “Funky Fruit” initiative to recover and create a marketing campaign for locally grown irregular fruits and vegetables that are otherwise disposed as waste.