Grain School 2021 Opportunities |
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For the last 5 years, Grain School at UCCS has brought a community together ranging from grain growers, millers, maltsters, brewers, chefs, educators, scientists, and students to share and complement knowledge and skills and build business relations in relevant topics. These topics have included whole and heritage grains and their relationship to health, nutrition, dietary fiber, and the microbiome, environment and climate change issues related to agriculture, and topics of biodiversity, grain’s role in sustainable farming practices, and the newest in crop science to leverage the traits of old varieties of grain for nutrition and flavor in more modern strains.
Grain School Online
Grain School is now moving into an online learning platform, with a first time launch in January 2021. Due to the importance of grain in both people’s diets and sustainable agriculture, Grain School Online will be developed as foundational course that allows students to gain the necessary knowledge in grain from production to consumption.
Grain School In The Field
Grain School in the Field is a 2-day field course organized through the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS), taught for the first time in 2021 and offered on an annual basis held at various locations throughout Colorado during the growing season. These field-based courses are open to the public and students from various universities, including UCCS.
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Food Next Door - Farm Subscription Program |
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Looking for fresh, local food?
Try the Food Next Door Farm Subscription Program!
Brought to you by the SWELL Sports Nutrition graduate students with funding from The Colorado Farm & Food System Respond & Rebuild Fund and the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Collegiate Program at UCCS College of Business.
The Food Next Door Farm Subscription Program brings fresh, locally grown, and ethically raised food to UCCS’s community in support of health and wellbeing, community food security, and farm and food literacy.
Here is how it works:
Subscribe monthly for $100/month and pick up your farm fresh food each Friday from the Sports Nutrition Lab at the William J. Hybl Sports Medicine and Performance Center (social distancing guidelines will be followed). This program works in four-week increments. You buy a subscription for four weeks (renewable after the first four weeks) and get a weekly Food Next Door Farm Bag filled with 100% locally sourced produce, grains, and beans with an option to add-on cheese, eggs, and meat from Southern Colorado's farmers and ranchers. The program will run until December 2020. The program is linked with fun food literacy facts and tips for your own kitchen and recorded cooking demos so you know how to integrate Colorado-grown and raised food into delicious meals. Food literacy topics focus on local and regional foods, ethics of eating, food culture, and eating for wellness and sports performance. To continue this program, we need at least 25 subscribers! Subscribe now; see link below!
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Sustainability Course Opportunities
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Check out these courses to add more sustainability to your academics!
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Internships and Employment Opportunities
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Farm to School Internships
National Farm to School Network (NFSN) is an information, advocacy and networking hub for communities working to bring local food sourcing and food and agriculture education into schools and early care and education settings.
Rocky Mountain Solar & Wind, Inc | Solar installation job opportunity To Apply: Send your resume to josh@rockymtnsolar.com and call 720-385-8264
- Best if have experience installing PV systems, but inexperienced workers are welcome to apply.
- Experience and Training Preferred for This Position:
- Training and experience in electricity, solar electric and batteries.
- No fear of heights.
- Good communication skills.
- Significant general construction experience.
- Helpful if have own tools, and own truck preferred but not required.
- Training and experience as an electrician would be very helpful.
- A strong desire to work on solar as a profession.
- No injuries that hamper being able to work.
- Compensation:
- Pay for this position will be $14-$20 per hour depending on experience, training, tools, and if applicant has a truck.
- Start Date: Immediate
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UCCS Campus Sustainability Award |
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Congratulations to Dr. Maggie Gaddis on being this year's Campus Sustainability Award recipient!
We appreciate all you do to make UCCS more sustainable!
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Earn PIPs even when we're 100% remote!
Click the link below to download your daily actions of water bottle refill, recycle and compost. Check out other actions that are accessible from home, including trivia, walking, attending a virtual event and more!
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Due to COVID-19 regulations, the Sustainability Demonstration House and Office of Sustainability will 100% remote as of 11/30/2020. Please email sustain@uccs.edu with questions.
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