Two years ago, Chad Corzine was exhausted, overweight and working 16-hour days for his father’s company. After a particularly grueling month of work travel, he decided to eat better and grow his own veggies on his small apartment balcony in Los Angeles. It was no easy feat. (more…)
It’s late May in the freshly tilled soil of a three-plus-acre organic farm on the U of M St. Paul campus. Horticulture student Lindsay Mayer kneels, wearing purple gloves and an orange bandanna to keep the sweat out of her eyes as she plants shallot after shallot.
She’s one of seven College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS) student interns hired by farm manager Courtney Tchida to operate Cornercopia. Each spring, and until the ground freezes, a new crop of students step onto the grounds of this outdoor classroom, ready to soak up the lessons of the land, the weather, the insects, the plants—even the chickens. (more…)
