Field trip (Germany)
From October 7th to 14th, 2021, doctoral students from the Agricultural University of Georgia visited Germany. In Berlin, they got to know the challenges of sustainable, ecological nutrition in a big city. The students received an introduction to the work of the Nutrition Council as a form of civic engagement and got to know the marketing of regional organic products inside a city via a farm shop at Domäne Dahlem, and a market hall in the Centre of the city. In Northern Hessen, the group of students visited Domäne Frankenhausen, the 320 ha organic farm of the University of Kassel-Witzenhausen. They were introduced to a long-term experiment that takes place at the 20ha research plots and got a tour to animal production community-based gardening at the farm. In Kassel, they got to know a community garden project that serves citizens of a neighborhood for food production and for socialization, also with regard to the integration of new citizens with migration background
