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Cultivating Place podcast “Back to School: The Institute for Food Farm at þˮ” spotlights þˮ’s sustainable plant education programs

Learn about þˮ’s farm and more on this episode of ‘Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden’

Siz people pose in a field on þˮ's farm
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Cultivating Place podcast “Back to School: The Institute for Food Farm at þˮ” spotlights þˮ’s sustainable plant education programs

Cultivating Place podcast host Jennifer Jewell spent a day at þˮ learning more about and interacting with faculty, staff, and students and getting a better understanding of the many ways plants and sustainable plant education is integrated into the campus and curriculum. Organized by Ann Rypstra, University Distinguished Professor of Biology, Jewell’s visit last fall included þˮ’s Ecology Research Center, greenhouses, a þˮ Tribe of Oklahoma informed garden, and the Hefner Museum of Natural History. 
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Jewell spent a “Back to School” day at þˮ’s Institute for Food Farm during þˮ’s Move-In week, where she interviewed Ross Olson, assistant director and farm outreach coordinator; Colin Valantino, combined bachelors and masters in Environmental Science student doing his practicum with the farm; and Aisley Carpenter, Zoology major and Environmental Science co-major, a student worker at the farm.
  • Listen to the interview on the Cultivating Place podcast episode: