The Michigan State University Museum has posted training materials for the curriculum “Food, Farming and Community.” The curriculum is divided into six lessons, with downloadable facilitator guides and PowerPoints. (The PowerPoints are rudimentary at best and will benefit from having you break the material into more slides, while adding images to engage your audience.)

Lessons are intended for “beginners” and include exercises that will work well with community and faith-based groups. The curriculum is designed to provide “a broad scope of sustainable agriculture issues and includes making personal connections with food, the environmental ‘footprint’ of food production, price vs. cost, trends in agriculture, and historic factors affecting today’s food systems.”

Make sure to appreciate the compelling images taken by photographer Cynthia Vagnetti from the People Sustaining the Land series of 2002 that appear on the website.