Today is website Monday. I wanted to share the website for Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) since so many of us are moving in the direction of teaching local, sustainable, seasonal, flavorful, thoughtful food sourcing and ultimately serving in foodservice outlets, no matter if they are a street cart or resort hotel.
To meet this new reality we have partnered with the Agriculture department to create a student garden at Purdue. They will teach us how to grow the greatest food and we will teach them how to turn that harvest into the greatest meals. We have a student callout today now that we have cleared the land Purdue gave us and planted some tomatoes, peppers, beans, and eggplant to get the ball rolling.
One of the resources available to us and others is the Sustainable Agiculture and Education website establihed in 1988 to help advance farming systems that are profitable, environmentally sound, and good for communities through a nationwide research and education grants program. I found the tabs for project reports and events very useful. For example, I simply typed in the word "tomato" to search in the project reports tab and a bunch of great reports on that fruit came up to read and review. Spend some time clicking around or share with students by visiting: http://www.sare.org/
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