Horticulture Learning Community Assignment

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Horticulture Learning Community Assignment

• Jenny Aune

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Goals

• To see differences
• Values
• People
• To see connections
• Assumptions and decisions
• Life basis vs. holding medium

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Paper Topics

• People and environment
• Values
• Gleaning (Service Learning)
• Butterflies
• Ethics of dams
• Creating a sustainable farm

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Preparatory Reading 1

• America in Exile by Hawthorne
• Religious persecution
• England
• New England
• Nature
• Life giving
• Evil
• Gap between viewpoints

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Preparatory Writing

• Compare your personal values with those of an
  ancestor.
• Devoted, religious mother has an affair and
  leaves family.
• Drunken father beats son for drinking.
• Liberal grandfather refuses to speak to
  granddaughter for marrying an American Indian.

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Transitional Assignment

• Bioregional Quiz

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Preparatory Reading 2

• Voices From White Earth by Winona LaDuke
• Circular vs. linear thinking
• Industrial thinkers
• Examples
• White Earth Recovery Project

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Soil

• What does it mean to you?

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The Assignment

• Your paper should do the following
• Explain the purpose of soil.
• Explain how you take care of the soil.
• Explain why you think and act in this manner.

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Positive Outcomes

• Some students really think
• Appreciate own land
• Ancestors connection to the land
• Stewardship over ownership
• Begin to appreciate other views
• Not so negative about circular views

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Problem 1

• Severe resistance
• You cant feed the world on organic crap.
• Who does she think she is?

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Problem 2

• Misunderstandings
• Why dont they want progress?
• If theyre using the land to make money, theyre
  doing the same thing as us industrial thinkers.
  Shes just another hypocrite.
• Dont they make enough money off their casinos?

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Problem 3

• Students bypass the assignment to express their
  anger at hippie organic crazies.

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Problem 4

• Turn their anger towards methe puppy-huggerand
  dismiss what I say on anything related to
  agriculture for the rest of the semester.

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Suggestions?

• (Help me!)