Course: Sustainable Food Teach-Out

Cynthia Vanrenterghem gives a tour of the Growing Hope Hoop House in Ypsilanti, Michigan. We will learn about the crops grown at the hoop house and how year-round farmers can …

Cynthia gives a tour of the Ypsilanti Farmers Marketplace and shows how the Marketplace helps the local community by providing access to resources such as commercial kitchens and storage spaces. …

Jeremy Moghtader and Benjamin Morse tour the Freight Farms at the University of Michigan Campus Farms. This segment explores the systems and technology used to produce food in an unconventional …

Local food systems are extremely complex and community-based work is a long-term commitment, one that requires strong relationships with a broad range of people. Growing Hope, an Ypsilanti-based, 501c3 nonprofit …

Food waste, across our entire food system, is also a large contributor to greenhouse gas emissions and our food-related impact. In this segment, Virginia and Benjamin talk about the issue …

The localization movement is in full swing, but what does ‘eating local’ actually mean and what are the benefits from doing so? In this segment Jeremy and Benjamin talk about …

Many of us would like to reduce the amount of food waste that occurs in our food systems, while also reducing the amount of plastic packaging that goes into transporting …

Food is something that is highly personal and something that each of us interacts with on a daily basis. There are obvious moments in which we make a food-related choice, …

In this segment Jennifer Blesh and Benjamin discuss how insights from the field of ecology can help us build a sustainable future food system. You will learn about the size …

Many of us have heard of “Meatless Mondays” but Alex Bryan and others at the University of Michigan are moving beyond a focus on meat through a new initiative called …

We all eat food, that’s obvious. What’s less obvious is how our food choices might affect climate change. We can measure the carbon footprint of a country, a community, a …

In this video, Martin Heller speaks with Benjamin about how small changes in your dietary decisions can have a large impact on your food-related environmental impact (GHG emissions, land use, …

In this Teach-Out, we will explore the complexities of the food system and how we can, individually and collectively, create food habits that reduce our impact on climate change. Together …