Agroecology Education and Action Resource
List for University and High School Students
Enjoyment and Entertainment
Crafts/Recipes
- Upcycled pie tin butterfly feeders to help the environment:
Butterflies, like bees, are awesome pollinators and help make healthy food for people! The use of pesticides and loss of safe habitats put butterflies at risk. You can help right in your own backyard with butterfly feeders like this!
- Free Resources for Home-Based Living, in the Time of Coronavirus:
Recipes for helpful things to make and grow, ways to help your community, free home-learning portals, good books, and more!
- Seasonal Recipes:
Fruit, vegetables, meat and fish tastes best when it’s in season and at its peak. Find the perfect recipe to fit.
Gardening
- Container Gardening Is for Everyone:
NC State 4-H Youth Support Specialist with cooperative extension, Tiayonna Liska, provides a how-to on container gardening with min space needed for common container edibles.
- FREE Veggie Seeds for Starting a Garden by Uprising Seeds!!!!:
A limited 5 packet seasonal garden bundle of food items that can be sown now. Currently contains: “Astro” Arugula, “Rainbow” Chard, “Umpqua” Broccoli, “Dragon Langerie” Bush Bean, “Çengelköy” Cucumber
- Join the Modern Farmer Million Gardens Movement:
Please sign up below and send us a picture of your new garden, whether you just planted it on the back forty or on the back fire escape, by using the hashtag #MillionGardens. We will be collecting and sharing all of them, and we will be coordinating with local food banks, so participants can donate their produce to people in their community who might benefit most.
Podcasts
- Hop in on the bread baking craze:
This podcast is a fascinating listen about how bread is a huge staple agriculturally, culturally, and economically. Learn some background information and then bake your own loaf! There are tons of easy online recipes for experts and beginners!
- Podcast: Sourcing Matters:
This podcast examines how we source food and why that matters!
- Farms, Food and You:
Issues in agriculture affect not just farmers. They influence your life every day. The podcast “Farms, Food and You” explores these issues with NC State University experts and others with deep ties to agriculture and food-related industries in North Carolina and beyond.
Books
- Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies by Seth Holmes:
A book about the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants in the American food system