Learn more about Fresh Focus activities, accomplishments and people. The Fresh Focus program reduces food loss while supporting student access to fresh produce. It is a central component of the Student Farm's efforts to build a more equitable and just farm and food system by cultivating student initiative, leadership, and experiential learning.
Modernizing & humanizing agricultural education through community based, culturally responsive, experiential learning
Summary
R1 land-grant institutions like UC Davis provide students with myriad opportunities to excel in Food, Agriculture, Natural and Human (FANH) sciences, yet Rising Scholars (Chicanx, Latinx, Native American, first generation, and low-income undergraduates) remain underrepresented in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CA&ES), and few Ethnic Studies courses, such as Chicana/o Studies, integrate FANH science material into t
The Community Table / Fresh Focus is an evolving effort looking at ways the Student Farm can address campus food insecurity and start dialogue around the intersections of people, place, and food.
