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This page provides information about the Urban Nutrition Initiative's most recent field trips.
 
Trips

• Vermont
    This summer, UNI took a field trip with high school students from the summer Youthworks program to visit organic agriculture projects in Vermont. In traveling with the students we hoped to strengthen our knowledge and connections to food systems and to recognize how our urban environment defines our food culture here in Philly. The trip was a rousing success and UNI hopes to make it an annual experience for our summer interns.

    Highlights include:
      - Camping out in the woods.
      - Vermiculture (worm composting).
      - Visiting Burlington College.
      - Swimming in Lake Champlain.
      - Canoeing.
      - Milking cows.
      - Pet snake.
• Hawk Mountain
    In October, UNI went to the birds. UNI staff and students went on a daytrip to Hawk Mountain Reserve on Blue Mountain in PA. Students learned about and interacted with the sylvan flora and fauna of the Keystone State while hiking up the mountain and watching for the migrating hawks.
• Boston
    Three students accompanied UNI staff to the Community Food Security Coalition Conference in Boston in November 2003. The conference brought together urban gardening groups from around the country. Students toured the Food Project's sites in Boston, went apple picking, and had fun exploring the city. This was the first time UNI brought students to a conference, but the students had such a fun time that UNI plans to bring students to more conferences.
• Caving
    And in November, UNI took it underground. UNI staff and students took their first of many caving trips to explore the formations at a limestone cave near Shippensburg, PA.

For more information about UNI's field trips, contact Ryan Kuck at sir_papalo-at-yahoo.com.

 
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