Most Cal Poly students navigate the bustling concrete campus, weaving through crowds and clanging bells to get to class. Environmental management and protection senior Moe Lee’s schedule looks a bit different. Their usual route is along a lengthy gravel path, past endless rows of fruit trees. After walking through a fence, Lee arrives at their […]
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Student-run Cal Poly Organic Farm sells produce locally
The Cal Poly Organic Farm embodies Learn by Doing to a T — meaning students plan work days, till the soil, plant the seeds, harvest the crops, price the food and sell produce to San Luis Obispo residents. The sales are made through the Farmer’s Market, Vons, Big Sky Cafe and boxes on Dexter Lawn. […]
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How “Earn While You Learn” became “Learn by Doing”
If you were a mechanics student at Cal Poly in 1903, odds are you were laying foundations and hammering together buildings. If you were studying agriculture, you were building roads and planting trees. In a couple of years, you or your peers were delivering the mail, cleaning the floors and emptying the trash. The history […]
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The fruits of their labor: Cal Poly Organic Farm moves on after closure
Aproximately two quarters have passed since Cal Poly ended its Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program.
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Produce stand lets ‘U-Pick’ fresh Cal Poly fruits and vegetables
U-Pick is a long-standing tradition at Cal Poly and offers students a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables at market price.
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Organic farm CSA program end brings new opportunity – and protests
The Cal Poly Organic Farm ended its ten-year Community Supported Agriculture Program this summer due to lack of funding and the Horticulture and Crop Sciences department’s choice to use alternative strategies to extend its community outreach.