The Stories Behind Our Food

by | Jan 11, 2016 | ARI, Community, Farming, Food

We woke up with the sun this Saturday morning to do some community work on the farm. My group’s responsibility was to climb into a pit filled with fermented corn, pass up buckets of the funky-smelling substance, and load it into barrels for relocation. Our shoveling...

Anticipation & Memories

by | Dec 19, 2015 | ARI, Community, Food, Nagano

On January 2, 2016, the 21 students enrolled in ESJ-2016, the 7 in the partner DUR (directed undergraduate research) course, my friends & colleagues Paul Jackson and Laurel Brook and I will head to Japan for a month.  As I anticipate our upcoming experience, I...