Wicked Problems

Field Trip Stops

1. Metzger Dairy

2. Scott Zeigler & The Watershed Foundation

3. POET Ethanol

4. Seven Sons

5. Holzinger Seeds

6. Goshen Wastewater Treatment Plant

7. Clay Bottom Farm

8. Jamie Scott

9. Blue Heron Ministries

10. Gunthorp Farms

11. Miller Poultry

12. Community Harvest Food Bank

13. Bridge of Grace Compassionate Ministries

14. Parkview Community Greenhouse & Learning Kitchen

15. Maple City Market

16. Three Rivers Co-op

17. Fort Wayne Farm to School Summit

Daily Topics

1. Key Principles in Agroecology

2. Diveristy in Farming Systems

3. Resilient Agroecosystems

4. Transparency & Labeling in the Food System

5. Life Cycle Assessment

6. Food-Oriented Community Development

7. Food Security, Food Soverignity, Food Access, Food Justice, Food Equity

8. Farm to Plate

9. Value(s) Based Food Systems

10. Food Policy

11. Land Sharing & Land Sparing

12. Scales of Ecology (community, ecosystem, landscape)

13. Genetic Diveristy & Food

14. Biogeochemical Cycles

15. Animal/Plant Integration

16. Carbon Farming

17. Food-Energy-Water Nexus

Other Experiences

1. Living & Working on a Farm

2. Food Litearacy and Exploring Merry Lea Teaching Farm education programs

3. Sampling with The Watershed Foundation

4. Building a Learning Community at RV

5. Aaron Kingsley visit

6. Grazing/Burning Prairie Project

7. Canoe Trip stops & speakers

Wicked Problems

1. Wicked problems and wicked solutions: the case of the world’s food supply

2. Food Waste - a wicked problem

Some Examples of Wicked Problems in the Food System

• How do we provide good local food to folks in urban areas within the context of limited financial resources while also fairly paying the food producers?  Are grants and outside finacial support the only way?

  • • • The unattainable trifecta of urban agriculture

      • Parkview, Bridge of Grace, Clay Bottom, Community Harvest Food Bank, etc.

• How do we know regenerative agriculture is really regenerative?  How do we measure what is happening in the soil and in surrounding ecosystems at a sufficient scale while also being able to adjust farmer payments in real time?  Labels (like organic) are created to govern practices - but carbon farming would need to measure results.

  • • • The hype behind carbon carbon farming comes down to earth

      • Scott Zeigler, Jamie Scott, Seven Sons, Grazing/Burning Prairie Project, LCA

• How do we incentivize behaviors that lead to cleaner water while also supporting farmers and food production?

  • • • New report finds Indiana has the most dirty waterways in U.S. Agriculture is main culprit.

      • Scott Zeigler, The Watershed Foundation, many others...