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Panama: All about culture and agriculture
By Taylor Talbert
Traveling abroad with some of your closest friends, learning more about global agriculture, and getting to see things that aren’t in the U.S. … sign me up!
Within the College of ACES, Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications instructor Gary Ochs supervises a group of 10 students to Panama each year to explore agricultural systems there.
In May 2022, I participated in this shortterm study-abroad program. We saw amazing architecture and ate amazing food, learned about Panamanian agriculture, and so much more. In the 10 days we were there, we visited everything from a racehorse facility to an indigenous village and learned about colonial Panama.
Whenever someone asks me my favorite part of the experience, I’m unsure about what to say. I loved everything about it. But if pressed, I’d say these are my top three memories:
