Many of these students are taking Garden Studio with Michael Strickland, English lecturer. The class is a combination of practical work and classroom-based knowledge of soil systems and planting. With skills they learn, the students can start a backyard garden themselves. People who do, and make other changes in their diets, are often called locavores.

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