MUM courses:
- Energy Use by Man and Nature
- Hands On Course In Sustainable Technologies
- Permaculture Design Certification
- Sustainability Forest Academy
- Artisan Foods and the Slow Food Movement
- Local Economy
Grinnell College courses:
Resource Center
Project Ideas
Group Project Ideas
Your team creates a one hour radio show on artisan foods that will air on KRUU fm. Not as hard as it may sound.
Fairfield Artisan Foods Collective
Fairfield Organic Producer Cooperative
A restaurant
A bakery
Slow hospitality/hostel project
An artisan foods center combing many of these business ideas into one
A community kitchen project
A CSA farm
Artisan Cheese
Vineyard/Juice operation -
An oil pressing operation (sunflower oil) - Vedic city grows hundreds of acres of sunflowers and has an oilseed press. Turn this into a business
A Fairfield restaurant certification program, which could be rolled out to other cities (see Restaurant section of Course Reader on this web site for articles on existing green restaurant programs)
Community gardens