Sustainable Food Systems Design and Education at a Multi-Use Site Site Design for the Kalamazoo Valley Community College Food Innovation Center

urban farming;food systems education;sustainable site design;stormwater management;School for Environment and Sustainability

Griffin, DerellGranito, EvanBernstein, IanLi, Zonghaona, na ;

University of Michigan

关键词: urban farming;    food systems education;    sustainable site design;    stormwater management;    School for Environment and Sustainability;   

Others  :  https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/148808/KVCC_MastersReport.pdf?sequence=5&isAllowed=y

瑞士|英语

来源: The Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship

【 摘 要 】

The Kalamazoo Valley Community College Food Innovation Center (FIC) is aninstitution dedicated to urban farming, sustainable agriculture, food systems education,and local food advocacy. They currently have a warehouse office, food processingcenter, greenhouse, and raised beds on their 5-acre campus. The FIC wishes to designthe rest of that 5-acre site so that it can be an educational site that coordinates withKVCC’s food-related educational programing while also serving model for sustainablesite design techniques. The FIC has enlisted the help of a team of landscapearchitecture master’s students at the University of Michigan to undertake this design.Utilizing precedent studies and site inventory and analysis techniques, the Design Teamcreated a design for the FIC campus that minimizes maintenance practices that lead togreenhouse gas production, maximizes ecosystem services including habitat creation,pollinator support, and stormwater management, addresses existing environmentalcontamination, supports the FIC’s mission and educational programming plan,prioritizes stages of implementation in accordance with the FIC’s access to resourcesand capacity for expansion, and reflects the FIC’s vision for their campus.