ENVS 4950 | Integrative Seminar in Environmental Studies | ETSU | Spring 2012

Close to Home: A study of the Cultural and Environmental Aspects of the Local Food Movement in Upper East Tennessee

Sarah Hoover | Customized Syllabus

February 1, 2012

Statement of Purpose

I am interested in the reasons that people choose to eat locally grown food as opposed to food produced by industrial agriculture. I am also interested in the culture that has grown up around the local food movement, and in the environmental, health, and economical implications of the movement. I am an anthropology major. I am considering careers in many aspects of anthropology, including medical and environmental anthropology.

Additional Texts

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. By Barbara Kingsolver. HarperPerrenial, 2008. 400 pages.

Food Justice: Food, Health, and the Environment. By Robert Gottlieb and Anupama Joshi. The MIT Press (MA), 2010. 304 pages.

Service Placement

Jonesborough Farmer’s Market

Jonesborough, TN

http://www.jonesborough.locallygrown.net/

Karen Childress

My duties include editing the market’s website, helping to fill orders at the weekly pick-up, interviewing customers and farmers about their involvement with the market, and other jobs that need to be done along the way.