Across the Nation

August 2009 Newsletter

Arizona: A group of physicians in rural communities have volunteered for 13 years to mentor medical students from the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson. The goal is to help increase the number of doctors practicing in rural Arizona.

The physicians volunteer to act as preceptors to medical students between the first and second years of medical school. The students will continue to work side-by-side with their preceptors over the course of their three remaining years of medical training, returning to the rural communities in their third and fourth years. The physicians are rural faculty members in the UA College of Medicine’s Rural Health Professions Program, known as RHPP, established in 1997 by the Arizona Legislature to encourage medical school graduates to practice medicine in rural communities. Forty-four rural communities are participating in RHPP.

California: Farm Bureau held an Ag Boot Camp to educate teachers about agriculture. The Press Democrat newspaper reports the two-day event took educators to various farm setups. These included a dairy, Gourmet Mushrooms near Sebastopol, Cline Cellars winery near Sonoma, and Oak Hill Farm and Atwood Ranch Vineyard, both outside of Glen Ellen.

This project has been an ongoing event for two decades. It offers an opportunity for educators to witness Sonoma County’s $3 billion agriculture industry. “We want to give them a greater awareness of agriculture and food and fiber ... and then to have them share it with their students,” said Lex McCorvey, the farm bureau’s executive director.

Vermont: Green Mountain College offers a 13 week, 12 credit sustainable agriculture course to students where they plow, plant, weed, milk, and otherwise produce their food using nothing but animal power and sustainable practices. The 22 acre farm is located adjacent to the college.

While enrolled in the course, students sleep at the field’s edge in tents and spend six hours a week in the classroom (of an old farm house) learning about things such as organic crop and animal management theory and agricultural technologies. College farming is part of an expanding trend in education. The Rodale Institute in Pennsylvania reports that over 80 schools have such hands-on and classroom-based farm programs.

Contact: Casey Francis, caseyf@cfra.org for more information or to suggest ideas for the column.

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