Welcome
"Kaula'I ka lima I ka lã, ole. Huli ka lima I lalo, ola." –Hawaiian saying meaning "Hands drying in the sun, nothing. Hands turned into the earth, life."
Iowa State University students working on their Student Organic Farm
"There is no social-change fairy. There is only change made by the hands of individuals." –Winona LaDuke
Discussion at United Students for Fair Trade Convergence
"Honor the hands that harvest your crop." –Dolores Huerta
Students at UNC-Chapel Hill celebrate with farmworkers at North Carolina's 18th Annual Farmworker Festival
"When people have a connection to the land—they have hope in their lives." - John Steinbeck
Brown University's Student Garden
"When you have people together who believe in something very strongly...things happen."- Cesar Chavez
Students gathering at the Northeast Real Food Summit 2007
"Eating is an agricultural act." - Wendell Berry
Lunchtime at Strengthening the Roots 2008, a West Coast Convergence
"It's time to change the way we eat. It's time to change the way we live. It's time to change the way we treat each other." - Tupac
Students with SFA rally for farmworkers' rights in Denver
The Real Food Challenge launched this past fall!
Launching the composting initiative at City University of New York - Brooklyn College
Challenge Partners
Sponsored by The Food Project and the California Student Sustainability Coalition
Student run farms are not a new concept for universities and colleges in the United States. In recent years, however, there has been an increasing interest among faculty, staff, and students in sustainable agriculture and the re-localization of the food system. As a result, student farm and garden projects have been cropping up across the country with such force that the Rodale Institute considers it a student farm movement. Ohio State, the largest land grand university in the country, can now be added to the growing list of institutions involved in this movement.