This lunchbag lecture course on food and the built environment will include urban agriculture, community gardens, resource management, homesteading, sustainability, green infrastructure, urban farms, tacosheds, community-supported agriculture, night soil,
Lecture 9: Professor Napawan continues her lecture on communal food production in urban gardens, the first part of which was Lecture 7 given on 2/24/12.
Lecture 8: Guest speaker Adam Prince, who focuses on urban food production, discusses urban agriculture, transcultural exchange and community building.
Lecture 7: Professor Napawan gives a primer on communal food production in urban gardens, which is on the scale somewhere between "empty lot" gardens and "boutique" yet commercial farms.
Lecture 6: Ellen Burke discusses the interaction between aesthetics and necessity.
Lecture 5: UC Davis' Ryan Galt discusses the concepts of food miles, greenhouse gas emissions and the complexities of local food.
Lecture 4: Professor Napawan introduces Robert Kenner's film.
Lecture 3: Rachel Kaplan discusses heirloom skills for sustainable living. Please note there is no lecture 2: please see the PDF available here: http://lda.ucdavis.edu/program/undergrad/coursesites.html
Lecture 1: an introduction to this course about food and the built environment.