The Arbor Day Foundation has once again named Goshen College a Tree Campus USA for 2019. Tree Campus USA is a program launched in 2008 by the Arbor Day Foundation to honor colleges and universities and their leaders who promote trees on their campuses and engage students in their conservation.
After losing much of their business to COVID-19 restaurant closures, the owners of Clay Bottom Farm in Goshen, Indiana, didn’t flinch.
Heather Gabel, a sustainable food systems and art double major, worked to bring her fields of study together through the Hickory Scholars program, an eight-week experience where students work with professors to conduct research related to Merry Lea Environmental Center’s mission of sustainability.
The eight-week Maple Scholars research program and Hickory Scholars sustainability program continued this summer, despite an early end to the academic school year due to coronavirus.
“How do we integrate places more intentionally into our lives and our lives more consciously into places,” is the question at the heart of Joel Pontius’ first book, “Place-based Learning for the Plate,” which explores 21st century stories of hunting, foraging and fishing for food.
From Indiana to New Mexico to Colorado to Virginia, students in the"Walking the World" May term class explored the relationship between human ideas and environmental engagement, all while participating in the act of walking.
Class of 2020 — who have worked hard, and saved, and planned at least the next 20 steps into our future in order to create our own space — are about to enter a world that isn’t ready for us.
Christy Miller Hesed '07 most recently directed a research project that engaged rural churches and government agencies to promote coastal resilience to climate change on the Chesapeake Bay.
From food council research to on-the-ground food asset mapping, Goshen College students are teaming up with ECFC to promote healthier, sustainable food for everyone in the community.
Luke Gascho, former director of Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center of Goshen College, is the recipient of the 2019 Howard Michaud Award from the Environmental Education Association of Indiana.
