{"id":1599,"date":"2011-02-08T14:35:10","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T19:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/farm\/?p=1599"},"modified":"2012-03-14T14:59:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T18:59:39","slug":"farm-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/farm\/farm-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Farm Team"},"content":{"rendered":"

Farm Team<\/a>
\nDickinson Website
\nby Jordan McCord<\/p>\n

This spring at the Dickinson College Farm, Kalyn Campbell \u201910 is enhancing her knowledge of sustainable farming while also cultivating young minds through the hands-on outdoors curriculum she\u2019s creating.<\/p>\n

During a three-month internship funded by a grant from the Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education, Campbell is developing a \u201cteaching garden\u201d at the farm in Boiling Springs, Pa., that will bring local K-12 students out to the country to learn about sustainable food production.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy end goal is to build a garden and a curriculum that remains, so when I\u2019m gone, this teaching program can continue,\u201d Campbell explained. \u201cI would also like to educate other Dickinson students about how to teach an on-site class like this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Campbell also interned at the farm this fall to begin developing a farm-based curriculum and worked with local schools to bring children out for visits. This spring she\u2019s expanding the curriculum by either growing or constructing visual teaching instruments at the farm that will more tangibly illustrate for students what sustainable agriculture entails.<\/p>\n

Jennifer Halpin, director of the College Farm, has worked closely with Campbell to craft the curriculum. \u201cAs an environmental-science major, Kalyn has developed a keen interest in environmental education and sustainable land management through agriculture,\u201d Halpin said. \u201cShe has worked at the farm as a student farmer since her sophomore year and has been an invaluable member of our farm team.\u201d<\/p>\n

An example of a visual teaching instrument that Campbell has in the works is a pizza garden. In raised beds, she\u2019s growing wheat, soy and a variety of vegetables that will be used as pizza ingredients. \u201cI want the kids to understand that the makings for pizza come from the ground,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The Bolton, Vt., native also envisions constructinga tool shed from reusable water bottles that will also demonstrate water collection. To help students better understand the local problem of storm-water runoff, Campbell would like to grow a \u201crain garden\u201d with plants that absorb water and chemicals quickly before they reach nearby streams. A solar-powered water pump and fountain also are on her horizon.<\/p>\n

Campbell, who just graduated in February, has connected with a variety of Dickinson faculty and organizations, especially ALLARM (Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring) and facilities management, to make her project a success. She also works part time at Dickinson\u2019s Children\u2019s Center as a substitute teacher.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Earlier this spring, Campbell spent two months learning the cheese-making process at Keswick Creamery in Newburg, Pa. Keswick produces 10 kinds of hard cheeses, including cheddar and Monterey jack, as well as soft varieties such as ricotta, yogurt and pudding. She took part in all production steps including milking and feeding the cows that provide milk for the cheese.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Campbell also learned the process by which cheeses are flipped and brushed, often with beer or hard cider, in the aging room. At a farmer\u2019s market in Washington, D.C., she helped sell the farm\u2019s products. Now that she\u2019s in the midst of her College Farm internship, she only works at Keswick once a week but feels the experience has expanded her knowledge of farming.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Though her father had a garden during her childhood, Campbell\u2019s interest in sustainable agriculture really began the summer after her sophomore year, when she interned with the College Farm. Since then, teaching agriculture has been a career goal. But rather than teaching in a traditional classroom setting, she said, \u201cI\u2019m interested in agricultural education as an alternative teacher or in teaching at an after-school program at a farm.\u201d<\/p>\n

Campbell\u2019s internships not only have allowed her to pursue her own interests but have inspired changes at the farm.<\/p>\n

\u201cKalyn\u2019s internship with the farm in the fall and the teaching garden project has prompted the farm to seek ways to continue to develop its educational outreach with youth populations,\u201d Halpin said. As a legacy to Campbell\u2019s service, starting this fall, the farm will hire one student per year to expand her teaching program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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