Category Archives: Food and culture

Post 5: Finalizing project direction

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This Thursday, our group met for the second time with our community partners from the Seeds program organizer, 2014 Summer Special Olympic organization representative, and UBC food services members to finalize our proposal. We are happy to announce that we have been approved by our community partners to focus our project direction to the nutritional component of food menu. We decided to separate the foods into nutritional and sustainable categories. The organizer expected us to separate the category into more specific groups. This way, they can use these categories as future reference to compare and add more food to the menu. This standardized table will also be a good educational component for athletes and coaches to read and learn during their dining at the games.

For the following week, we will email the UBC food services in order to meet with the dietitians and hopefully receive some food advices for our project. We will establish different criteria for food groups. Our goal for this will be to explain why these criterion are important to distinct different categories of food. After we have sorted food into different groups, we can finally define the term “sustainability” for this project; especially what sustainability means to our group

Introduction to LFS 350

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The Land, Food, and Community series is a number of classes that the students of UBC Land and Food Systems take every year.  The students of Land Food and Community II (LFS 350; formerly known as AGSC 350) complete extensive projects on food security issues in British Columbia.  Students work in groups of 6 or 7 to explore issues within their assigned communities and themes, and team up with members of the community to tackle these issues.  In this way, students can engage in their education by learning from community partners and immersing themselves in “real world” situations outside the classroom.  Community Partners can learn about what students are doing and learning at UBC, and can work with students to make a positive impact on their organizations and communities in terms of food security.  The Land and Food Series classes are unique from most other university courses as they emphasize teaching as a “community of learners” and community based research instead of top-down instruction and research.  Students learn from the teaching team, their peers and the communities of British Columbia making for an education that bridges university academics with real world issues.