Food Studies News Volume 6 - June 2020
Contents A Year to Remember .................................... 01 2020 Students’ Awards …….………………………….. 03 Timed light flashes effect on hydroponically grown plants growth rates …. 04 A Summer and Fall with RIPA Urban Farm …….. 08 Virtual Guest Speakers ……………………………...... 12 A Quest for efficient Nutrient Media ……….. 14 Germination and Development of Nasturtium, Mustard Greens and Swiss Chard in Different Substrates ………………………………… 16
A Year to Remember Halfway through the spring semester of 2020, we, as students, faced a challenge like no other in our generation, the Coronavirus pandemic --an event that brought social unrest, economic collapse, hunger and death, on all levels of social strata. We adapted to the changes in the best way possible: teachers continued teaching and students continued learning on virtual platforms. For many, however, the challenge was insurmountable. At the moment, we are still in the throes of the pandemic, asking ourselves, how can we cope with the challenges presented to us while we continue educating ourselves and teachers educate a new generation? Is there time to think and plan the next steps? Do we have access to all the possible variables? When will we return to normalcy, or near normalcy? These and other questions came to our minds as we looked at the closing academic year. We do not have all the answers yet, but we are hopeful that things will get better, while we also know deep inside that our lives have been forever changed. In this edition of the newsletter we are looking back in time, when there was a sense of relative stability. June of 2019 Professors Henderson, Cardona, and Delgado took the message of the Food Studies Program to the Northern part of the country, Anchorage, Alaska, where they joined faculty and students from universities across the country during the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Food and Society and the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society. Later that summer, a pilot project in collaboration with La Finca del Sur Community Farm was in the works. Both experiences were one more step forward buttressing food studies education in the regional and national arenas.
Piloting the Kratky Method of Growing Leafy Greens ………………….…. 17 The effect of COVID-19 in Food Chains …………… 18 Letter to Author of San Francisco Garden Project for Prisoners from Students in Shoes of Wendell Berry, Agricultural Writer .….. 22 The Food Studies Program ……………..…… 23
Left to Right: Kathleen Delgado, Flor Henderson and Felix Cardona
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