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XNI 105 - Growing Connections: Agriculture

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Connections Block: BIO 115-B500 Concepts of Biology: Food and Agriculture  and IDS 141-B500 Sustainable Agriculture Synthesis   Growing Connections: Agriculture is part of a larger Growing Connections curriculum (four courses in the fall with the option to continue in the winter/spring and beyond).  Students investigate issues such as pesticide use, soil fertility, crop rotation, and nutrition in the classroom, the laboratory, and on weekly field trips to local farms and sustainable businesses.