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
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