Acknowledgments

The development of these activities was the result of wide collaboration and support from many people and institutions (see Introduction). To assure their usefulness, activities were initiated out of a participatory brainstorming and selection process involving staff, faculty, and students responsible for teaching and learning sustainable agriculture in the context of college farms.

Activities were then tested with high school and college students and teachers from a wide range of demographic, regional, and institutional backgrounds within Northern California. A number of these participating students and teachers provided feedback that contributed considerably to revisions and further testing. These participants' contributions were especially important in assuring the usefulness and relevance of the activities for high school and college students and teachers.

We would like to thank the following individuals for making this project possible.

• Raoul Adamchak
• Bryce Batistti
• Dave Chaney
• Leonard Diggs
• Jerry Del Sol
• Richard Engel
• Paul Finn
• John Fisher
• Marco Franciosa
• Hunter Francis

• Robert Fraser
• Jeff Hardesty
• Shawn Harrison
• Carol Hillhouse
• Navina Khanna
• Mary Kimball
• Les Kishler
• Ann Lindsey
• Jim Leap
• Lynn Martindale

• Janice McMurray
• Laura Mendes
• Albie Miles
• Weston Miller
• Steve Olson
• Carol Shennan
• Paul Sommers
• Cary Trexler
• Bert Walker
• Sue Webster

We are grateful to the following high schools for their contributions to this effort:

Grant, Woodland, Davis, Esparto, Los Gatos, Luther Burbank, Mount Madonna, Rio Vista, River City, San Luis Obispo, San Jose Conservation Corps and Charter School and the Davis Home-School group

We appreciate the support and collaboration of the following colleges and universities:

UC Santa Cruz, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Clara University, San Jose Community College, Stanford University, Cal Poly Pomona, and College of the Redwoods

We thank the F.A.R.M.S. Leadership Program and the Center for Land Based Learning for their continuing collaboration on this and other youth focused projects. We also thank UC IPM for their generosity with images of pest and beneficial arthropods and weeds.

This project was sponsored in part by California Food and Fiber Futures (CF3) program, a W.K. Kellogg Foundation grant at the University of California, Davis.

• Damian Parr, doctoral student, agricultural and environmental science education, UC Davis
• Mark Van Horn, director, Student Experimental Farm, UC Davis
• Ann Marie Kennedy, science teacher, Grant High School, Sacramento
• Arron White, science teacher, Grant High School, Sacramento