Have you ever waited and waited to do something and faced challenge after delay?
I've been wanting, planning, plotting to take PLAN 548Z since the spring of 2008. PLAN 548Z, for those non-SCARPies, is a course named "Food Systems Policy & Planning", taught ONLY IN THE SUMMER TERM by Wendy Mendes, Food Policy Planner extraordinaire and part-time professor. The summer of 2008 had me in the Philippines (posts below) for a different wonderful course but the timing of THAT course meant that it was impossible to be part of the 'food course'. And summer 2009 was my summer of transition (no posts, it was that transitory) and I was in Toronto and that meant no 'food course'. So this year I jumped at the chance to register! There are wonderful advantages to being a Super SCARPie (more than 2 years in the program)!
The course is divided into four components - What is Food Policy Planning; Food Production in the City - Urban Agriculture and Beyond; Food Systems Planning - Social Inclusion and Participatory Governance and Food Processing, Distribution, Waste Management and the Local Food Economy. There are three assignments - one of which is to journal or blog about the readings. I'm going to blog here (all the better to share with the two folks who read this site:) and organize it by component and hopefully share some of the three week adventure!
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