Food & the Garden

Left Image: UO's Urban Garden, Middle Image: Aerial shot of wooden table filed with food, Right Image: A carrot being harvested from the ground.

 

Academic Team:
Harper Keeler (hkeeler@uoregon.edu) 
FIG Seminar Instructor
Jackson 
FIG Assistant

Meet your FIG Instructor and Assistant!

 

 
Courses in the FIG:

UGST 109 FIG Seminar

 TIME | BUILDING | CRN | 1 Credit

The Food and the Garden FIG is a very hands-on FIG that looks at the intersection between food and productive landscapes. Working together, we will explore the various traditions of garden making and how food shapes our community. This is primarily an outdoor FIG that takes place at the UO Urban Farm and includes fun garden activities such as planting, harvesting and pressing cider from apples grown on the farm. It is really a celebration of autumn in the northwest.   

Deep-Dive FIG: This FIG is part of the food cluster, which includes multiple field trips and hands-on events. This course has been vetted by First Year Programs to ensure first-term students can achieve success. The instructor will be available to assist students along the way.

LA 260 Understanding Landscapes

Arts & Letters (>1)| TIME | BUILDING | CRN | 4 Credits

This course presents a richly illustrated overview of the relationships between human cultures and their vernacular and designed landscapes. Students study a broad range of gardens, parks, memorials, and civic landscapes. These places exemplify both the distinctive characteristics of many world cultures and themes found in the creation of special multi-cultural landscapes. Gardens are studied as metaphors for the human cultural ideas they seek to express and nurture. Students learn about the structure and pattern of designed landscapes, the history of environmental policies and values that affect them, and the ways that landscape designs are understood and described. Students do class projects, such as making models or simple drawings of gardens, but need not have any prior art experience to take the class.

Note: Fulfills major/minor requirements for Landscape Architecture

ENVS 225 Introduction to Food Studies

Social Science (>2)| Global Perspectives (>GP) | TIME | BUILDING | CRN | 4 Credits

An exploration of the field of "food studies" and examination of the role of food in historical and contemporary life in the US and around the world.