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["kerrick ." <kereth@gmail.com>]

You could do worse than get in touch with these folks:

http://www.urbanfood.org/
and also
http://www.plantingjustice.org/

Urban Food is the website for the UC Berkeley project that you might
be interested in. Planting Justice is an Oakland organization working
on sustainable urban agriculture and food justice for poor people.
Either could definitely be worked into a social geography thesis, but
physical geography might be less easy. But perhaps the people involved
can point you in the right direction.

I don't know of research going on in Canada right now, though.
Hopefully someone else on the list can help you more with that.

K

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Sarah Bale <amelia.bale@gmail.com> wrote:
> hey kerrick
>
> i'm at Trent University in Ontario, Canada, just moved here from Vancouver
> where i did my undergrad at UBC.
> i'm in a program called "modelling for the natural and social sciences" and
> i'm within the department of geography here. my supervisor is an
> agricultural specialist, but he's fairly conventional and so i'm sort of
> soul searching on own here, trying to find a topic that really suits my
> interests (sustainable development, food security, conservation of species
> and ecosystem services). i just received at $12,000 grant towards my project
> and would love to contribute to some real community effort somewhere, the
> only catch is that my project has to be quite "science-y" and i have to
> either use or build a model as part of my project. my supervisor was
> suggesting perhaps building a neural network to examine the interactions and
> synergies between the biotic and abiotic components of an ecologically based
> agricultural system, so i was hoping to find a project that i could sort of
> insert myself into, since i only really have about a year left (this year
> was mostly class work).
>
> i'll definitely check out uc berkeley site, thanks for the suggestion, and
> if you have any other ideas i'd love to hear about them!
> thanks
>
> sarah
>
> On 17 March 2010 13:16, kerrick . <kereth@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi, dward,
>>
>> I also looked at ATTRA and growfood.org when I was figuring out where
>> to go. There are a lot of opportunities in the PNW. What kind of
>> things are you looking to do?
>>
>> Kerrick
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 8:57 AM, dward Okun <dward.okun@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > hi! my partner michelle and i are looking to do some wwoofing in northern
>> > california and oregon and maybe washington. i have signed up for wwoofing
>> > and helpx and i have a couple contacts but if you have any recomendations
>> on
>> > any permaculture farms and what not i would love to check them out.
>> thanks
>> >
>> >
>> > dward
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