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Horticulture student ToniaLordy operates a rototiller to break up the hardpacked soil in the C om m unity Gardens, near the Campus Services building. The Board o f Education approved the college’s urban agriculture program ■ — the first, in the state — in April. C ity farm ing and playing in tion has boosted the value o f com pletion in the program, which gives students access to a career in sustainable farming and hands on experience in the arid- its expansive new mban garden plot. T h e new Urban A griculture certificate being offered at the college is exclu sive t.o C Ç C ’s' H orticulture D epartm ent. State certifica T h e new certificate offered at Clackamas allows ,-students to gain the knowledge to own and operate their own small scale farms. T he certificate pro gram was approved at the C C G By Felicia Skriver The Clackamas Print Board o f Education meeting . student. - “I ’m excited that in April and is the on ly one o f the school offers something. its kind offered in the state o f There’s no other com m unity Oregon. Tjhe,. program-sfocus- college in -the area at all that ana o S m ^ n is Program.” sustainability practices, while Graduates o f the program using organic production prin will enter the farming com m u ciples^ “Basically I want to do it, nity with not only knowledge that’s what I want ¿to do. d? to run their own firm s, but want to farm on a small scale,” they will have connections to said Tonia Lordy, horticulture already existing farmers: accord ing to Elizabeth Howley, the horticulture department chair. “ It’s im portant they meet their , fellow peers in the indus- H owf® ^’cTn?dnrp8Se is to have the training for the students who desire, and have a passion to become farmers, to get the training.” Please see URBAN AG, Page 2 Cougars win two over Chemeketa, take second place in Southern Region race Their fir s t game w ill take place on Friday, M ay 18 a t Delta Park, against Shoreline Com m unity College a t 11:30 a.m.. Read the f u l l story on page. 7. Learning spreads like wildfire; page 2 Dave speaks about life, bread; page 6
