Agriculture at Penn?

JHS
Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:18:07 +0000

Sustainable agriculture is a hot hot hot area of study – I meet many kids who are interested in it. In addition to Cornell, Yale has an interdisciplinary program, and I wouldn’t be surprised to find that there are a bunch of others salted around. My nephew just finished up at Hamilton, where he was a “College Scholar” (self-designed major, lots of independent study) focusing on philosophy, economics, and agriculture. He got incredible support from the college – not only research funding, but they went out and paid a top professor at another university to assist in his supervision. Among other things, he started up a CSA project in Clinton with the college as a major customer.