University of Guelph - B.Sc.(Agr) Organic Agriculture

http://www.organicag.uoguelph.ca/

Guelph, ON
519-824-4120

E. Ann Clark
eaclark@uoguelph.ca
519-824-4120 Ext. 52508

Paul Voroney
pvoroney@uoguelph.ca
519-824-4120 Ext. 53057

The Guelph Organic Program, including the B.Sc.(Agr) Organic Agriculture major, is now an amazing five years old! In five short years, public demand for organics has grown by leaps and bounds, creating a stream of new employment and growth opportunities in everything from organic farming, food safety and security, and public health to greenhouse gas abatement, nutrition, and resource conservation. If ever there was a time for organics, that time is now.

Program offerings, including the addition of the new 1 hectare Guelph Centre for Urban Organic Farming (GCUOF) on campus, have been refined to better prepare both students and the broader community to face these issues head on. Guelph is unique among Canadian universities in offering both academic and applied learning opportunities in organics on campus for a broad range of career directions.

While organic remains the centerpiece of the program, the overarching theme of “eating sustainably” encourages engagement in the local, seasonal, and post-farmgate issues which together with farming philosophy create the ecological footprint of the agri-food system. As is increasingly apparent, these issues pertain not simply to local and regional but also to global.

Retrieved from University of Guelph website on 4/16/2010.