{"id":1735,"date":"2011-06-01T14:40:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T19:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/?p=1735"},"modified":"2011-08-22T15:00:15","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T20:00:15","slug":"cmu-breaks-new-ground-with-on-campus-community-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/2011\/cmu-breaks-new-ground-with-on-campus-community-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"CMU Breaks New Ground with On-Campus Community Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Urban Farm Collective Launches First Season of Two-year Plan
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\n<\/span>Spring 2011 marks the first season of CMU\u2019s new on-campus Community Shared Agriculture (CSA) Farm, a two-year collaborative urban farm project of the university and the CMU Farmers\u2019 Collective.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe farm is a place of learning in which emerging farmers can practice the craft of land stewardship while growing healthy, local food for sharers,\u201d says Kenton Lobe, CMU International Development Studies (IDS) instructor and Farmers\u2019 Collective member. \u201cI am ecstatic with the level of commitment from the farmers working on the project.\u201d<\/p>\n

This project is the realization of a dream of Lobe and alumni DeLayne Toews and Megan Klassen-Wiebe, who are members of CMU Farmers\u2019 Collective and who, over several recent summers, worked on several small-scale farms in Manitoba and the East Coast and imagined what an urban, campus farm might look like at CMU, bringing the idea to fruition. \u00a0Other members of the Collective committed to farming this season are alumni Karin Coleman Neufeld, Kurt Lemky, Corinne Klassen, and MSC practicum student Jeanette Sivilay.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe farm provides a real place in which to engage the issues of food security, land stewardship, and project development\u2014all areas that I teach,\u201d Lobe says. \u201cHaving a place to experiment and imagine what the work looks like provides a rich context for learning by doing that really supports the academic curriculum of the university.\u201d<\/p>\n

For this season, the CMU Farmers\u2019 Collective <\/em>is selling 25 shares at $450 each, providing each sharer with a weekly box of fresh, seasonal vegetables starting mid-June for a projected 12-week timeframe. The farm is also growing a plot of corn to sell at a corn roast to support the work of Mennonite Central Committee, and will host a fall harvest celebration. Next year\u2019s work will involve clarifying linkages with university courses.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe CMU Farm holds the potential to link the issues of global hunger with local and small-scale agriculture and to help us explore how the food we eat opens us to God\u2019s creation and connects us with others,\u201d says Lobe.<\/p>\n

To read the Winnipeg Free Press July 30, 2011 article on the CMU community garden, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) is a Christian university in the Anabaptist tradition, offering undergraduate degrees in arts and science, and such disciplines as business and organizational administration, communications and media, peace and conflict resolution studies, music and music therapy, theology, and church ministries, as well as graduate degrees in Theological Studies and Christian ministry. CMU is a Member of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC).<\/em> Located in Manitoba, CMU has over 1,700 students at its Shaftesbury Campus in Southwest Winnipeg, at Menno Simons College in downtown Winnipeg, and enrolled through Outtatown.
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For more information or to reserve your share, contact:
\nThe CMU Farmers\u2019 Collective, cmufarm@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span> <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/em>For CMU information, contact:
\nNadine Kampen, Communications and Marketing Director
\nnkampen@cmu.ca<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>
\n<\/em>Tel. 204.487.3300, Toll free 877.231.4570
\nCanadian Mennonite University, 500 Shaftesbury Blvd.
\nWinnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3P 2N2
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