| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 65.28 |
| Liaison | Kevin Kirsche |
| Submission Date | April 29, 2014 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
University of Georgia
SD-2: Food Education
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
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N/A |
Andrew
Lentini Sustainability Coordinator Office of Sustainability |
Are students educated in an academic class about how to make eco-positive food choices?:
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Course ID: FDNS 2100. 3 hours.
Course Title: Human Nutrition and Food
Description: Nutritional needs and food choices for the optimal health of the individual during the life cycle.
Oasis Title: HUMAN NUTR & FOOD
Offered: Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year.
Grading System: A-F (Traditional)
Are students educated in dining facilities about how to make eco-positive food choices?:
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Are students educated during orientation about how to make eco-positive food choices?:
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Food Services Orientation Hosts will be available at parent and student check-in, breakfast and lunch meal periods, the resource fair, and our tailgate welcome dinner to answer questions and assist freshmen, parents, and transfer students in signing up for a meal plan.
https://foodservice.uga.edu/events/first-year-orientation-summer-2013
Are students educated in other venues about how to make eco-positive food choices?:
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Is there a program by which students are encouraged to and/or taught how to grow their own food?:
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UGArden seeks to promote the social, environmental, and nutritional benefits of sustainable gardening through the creation of a student-run community garden. Such a unique outdoor learning experience encourages engagement with the natural world, fosters interdisciplinary pursuits at UGA, and offers a meaningful sense of place to a largely transitory student body. This student organization is dedicated to the management of a 4-acre garden. It began as a simple idea- to provide a place for students to learn to raise food and promote sustainable gardening. With this in mind, a group of dedicated students developed a plan and sought approval for a place to garden. After a year-long process, and a lot of hard work by many students and faculty advisor, David Berle, the garden found a home. The garden is located on South Milledge Avenue, on university land formerly dedicated to sheep and hog farming. The first planting was in May of 2010. Professor Berle has led an enthusiastic group of UGArden members and student volunteers to establish a garden that now includes fruit plantings, bee hives, green walls, medicinal herbs, a high tunnel and a woodland mushroom demonstration area.
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