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AA� <br /> program includes a formal internship program, which take place over the summer. The <br /> college has a 60 plus acre farm (which participants toured)with 4-5 acres cultivated. <br /> The college operates a CSA and employs <br /> a full-time farm manager. <br /> Dr. Jonathan Deutsch from <br /> Kingsborough Community College in New <br /> York City provided an urban slant on <br /> sustainable food systems. The college, <br /> which serves 30,000 students on the <br /> southern end of Brooklyn, operates a new <br /> half-acre farm that is driven by the needs <br /> and interests of its very strong culinary <br /> arts program. Jonathan recently co- <br /> authored a textbook of culinary programs <br /> titled Culinary Improvisation that treats <br /> culinary arts as a true art form. <br /> An urban site, the farming is all on raised beds of 100 percent compost. The food <br /> raised is sold to restaurants and the school's cafeteria, and at farmers markets at public <br /> housing sites. EATS is a program to create community owned and operated four- <br /> season farms and a food distribution system in urban neighborhoods. Although not <br /> likely to provide many full-time jobs, it can supplement low incomes, provide better <br /> foods and improved health, and create community. <br /> Basis is a farm-to-chef program that feeds into the college's goal of producing chefs <br /> who understand sustainability as common practice, not a trend or add-on to other skills. <br /> It connects regional small and mid-size farmers with wholesale customers seeking <br /> traditional and traceable foods. The college also operates an incubator in its teaching <br /> kitchen that can be used off hours that produces not only foods but also skin care <br /> products made from foods. Entrepreneurial students converted an old diesel boat <br /> (Kingsborough has strong marine technology programs) to run on recycled cooking oil <br /> from the college cafeteria (hfti2://www.youtube.com-/watch?v=dUlTil5qbdi). <br /> Kingsborough has plans to offer a certificate in Sustainable Foodservice and <br /> Certification in Urban Farming. <br /> Pi <br /> Mike Ryan, campus farm manager at .H. <br /> Johnson County Community College in , <br /> Kansas described the school's Center <br /> for Sustainability and campus farm. The <br /> college's program began on a farm at s <br /> Kansas State University though a grant <br /> funded partnership with the university in <br /> 2007 but moved to the Horticultural <br /> Sciences Building on the JCCC campus <br /> in 2010 and turned 2.5 acres into a <br /> 4 <br />