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farming and food systems

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Farming & Food Systems
www.coa.edu/academics/areas-of-study/farming-food-systems/
Farms
www.coa.edu/farms/

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Projects for Peace Awards $10,000 for Gambian Venture

A community-managed seed bank will be created in Albreda, The Gambia, West Africa this summer thanks to a Kathryn W. Davis 100 Projects for Peace grant awarded to College of the Atlantic senior Jenna Farineau ’18.
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Bean Supper Celebrates Local Food, History [Mount Desert Islander]

A local celebration of the history and culture surrounding Mount Desert Island food features the operator of COA’s Peggy Rockefeller Farms, C.J. Walke.
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Share the Harvest Opens for 2018 Season

College of the Atlantic’s farm-based and student-coordinated food access program supplies vouchers and subsidies for fresh, local produce from COA Beech Hill Farm and now from the Bar Harbor Farmers’ Market as well.

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Faculty:

Kourtney Collum

Faculty, Food Systems
Todd Little-Siebold

Faculty, History
Suzanne R. Morse

Faculty, Botany and Agroecology
Chris Petersen

Faculty, Ecology & Biology