Exploring Farm-Based Education: A Conversation with Shelby Geitner
What happens when you combine outdoor education and a passion for farming? In Shelby Geitner’s experience, this led her to farm-based education and exploring its role in sustainable and equitable food system transformation through the thesis for her Master’s degree. After about six years leading youth outdoor programs, she found a deeper connection to nature through farming yet wanted to bring the two together in her own career and education path.
Does Farm-Based Education hold the potential to widen a farm’s community reach beyond its own acreage? What could this mean for people living in city centers that rarely interact with where their food comes from?
Click here to listen to Michelle Gilman (Food Fluency, REGAIN Network Weaver) and Shelby Geitner discuss the highlights of Shelby’s study based in the US and France.
What interests you about farm-based education? Any relevant experiences? Let us know in the comments below.
Want to dig a bit deeper? Check out the research summary and visual aid resource:
– Page 17: An overview of the key themes, Food Justice & Sovereignty, Agroecology, and Popular Education
– Page 26: Example agroecology actions and practices used by organizations
