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Sustaining Small Farm Sales in an Online World

Post contributed by Jessica Kelton, Regional Extension Agent, Farm & Agribusiness Management Team With the advent of the internet, almost every aspect of our lives have changed. Access to information is instant, banking and bill paying can be done from a mobile device, and even shopping by U.S. consumers has…

adminSeptember 5, 2018

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Small Beginnings

Post contributed by Jonathan Lillebo, Graduate Student in Adult Education, Bachelor of Science in Horticulture ‘18, President, Organic Garden Club ’16-‘18 You are strolling through the market and as you pass the flower and plant section, you spot a sweet little row of succulents and decide you are going to go for it and…

adminSeptember 5, 2018

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Investing in the Health of our Soils & the Health of our Communities

Post contributed by Alice Evans, Executive Director of the Alabama Sustainable Agriculture Network (ASAN) Agriculturally, economically, and socially, Alabama has a problem retaining resources – be they nutrients, dollars, or talent and expertise. Economically, Alabama farmers spend dramatically more on inputs sourced outside the state, than they bring into the…

adminSeptember 5, 2018

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Auburn City Farmer’s Market Kicks Off This Month!

Fall will be here soon, alongside lower temperatures and thoughts of the outdoors. Football, camping, the changing color of leaves, and fresh produce all come to mind as essential elements of fall. Where better to get fresh produce than a farmer’s market? So grab your reusable shopping bags and get…

adminSeptember 1, 2018

Sustainability in Action Updates

Campus Changemaker: Shelly Nemeroff

Post contributed by Max Garcia, Office of Sustainability Intern Shelly Nemeroff Shelly Nemeroff has the true Auburn spirit. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Operations Management from Auburn University and a Master’s degree from Troy University. After working in the private sector, in finance and retail management, she joined Auburn…

adminSeptember 1, 2018

Director's Corner Updates

Director’s Corner: Enjoyable & Sustainable Eating on Campus

“Auburn Foods products are locally-grown and sustainably produced – many of these items are grown right on our campus.” ~ Gwen Ward, Auburn University Tiger Dining Food is one of the most important sustainability issues. What, where, and how food is grown, processed, transported, delivered, consumed, and disposed of, as…

Mike KenslerAugust 29, 2018

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Director’s Corner: Education and Action: In, About, and FOR Sustainability

In graduate school at the School of Natural Resources and Environment (now the School for Environment and Sustainability) at the University of Michigan, I had the privilege of learning environmental education concepts from one of the truly great environmental educators, Dr. Bill Stapp. One of our class exercises was to…

Mike KenslerApril 4, 2018

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Growing Opportunities at the Dudley Rain Garden

Post contributed by Kenzley Defler, Office of Sustainability Intern In the spring of 2013, Professor Charlene LeBleu worked with students from the Landscape Architecture and Building Science programs to design and implement a rain garden outside of Dudley Hall, a project funded by AU Facilities Management and a grant from…

adminApril 4, 2018

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An ‘A’ for Alabama Kids Means Moms are Getting Active

Community and Civic Engagement, Post contributed by Jill Medina Elizalde, Mothers Out Front In 2016, shortly before the election, my family and I moved here from Amherst, MA. I am a mother of a five-year-old, and there are many issues that concern me in today’s world but the one that stands…

adminApril 4, 2018

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Rethinking Activism

Post contributed by Cindy Lowry, Executive Director, Alabama Rivers Alliance When I was 12 years old, I campaigned door to door for my father who was running for Oneonta City Council. This was one of those experiences as a child that made a lasting impression on me, partly because I…

adminApril 4, 2018

Sustaining Small Farm Sales in an Online World

Small Beginnings

Investing in the Health of our Soils & the Health of our Communities

Auburn City Farmer’s Market Kicks Off This Month!

Campus Changemaker: Shelly Nemeroff

Director’s Corner: Enjoyable & Sustainable Eating on Campus

Director’s Corner: Education and Action: In, About, and FOR Sustainability

Growing Opportunities at the Dudley Rain Garden

An ‘A’ for Alabama Kids Means Moms are Getting Active

Rethinking Activism

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