{"id":26,"date":"2014-03-28T11:53:58","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T15:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/hvagriculture\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2018-03-30T16:41:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T20:41:39","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/hvagriculture\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the blog for the Spring 2018\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vassar.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vassar College<\/a>\u00a0course\u00a0<strong>Field Experiences in the Hudson Valley<\/strong>.\u00a0 Taught by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vassar.edu\/faculty\/lenevarez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leonard Nevarez<\/a>\u00a0for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/environmentalstudies.vassar.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Environmental Studies Program<\/a>, our theme this semester is\u00a0<strong>Sustaining Local Agriculture<\/strong>.\u00a0 Here you\u2019ll find photos and essays by students documenting the farms and other agricultural destinations we visit.<\/p>\n<p>The course has three main learning objectives:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>To visit and appreciate the farms and agriculture of the Hudson Valley in their local particularity and broader significance.<\/li>\n<li>To critically analyze the food systems, human geographies, and cultural systems that mediate people&#8217;s connections to Hudson Valley agriculture.<\/li>\n<li>To become expert in, and be held accountable for, some\u00a0<em>knowledge<\/em> of the Hudson Valley through blogging, documentary contributions, and social media.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>To look at the syllabus for the course,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.vassar.edu\/lenevare\/2018\/enst291\/description.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the blog for the Spring 2018\u00a0Vassar College\u00a0course\u00a0Field Experiences in the Hudson Valley.\u00a0 Taught by\u00a0Leonard Nevarez\u00a0for the\u00a0Environmental Studies Program, our theme this semester is\u00a0Sustaining Local Agriculture.\u00a0 Here you\u2019ll find photos and essays by students documenting the farms and other agricultural destinations we visit. The course has three main learning objectives: To visit and appreciate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/hvagriculture\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/hvagriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/hvagriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/hvagriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/hvagriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/hvagriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/hvagriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/hvagriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/hvagriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}