Slow Food on Campus

Slow Food on Campus is a network of Campus Convivia, chapters of Slow Food USA run by college and university students across the country. These Campus Convivia are the living, breathing, working arm of Slow Food USA in the college community. By promoting food and food justice issues and by engaging their fellow students in the pleasures of the table and the garden, Campus Convivia aim to promote a slower, more just, and more harmonious rhythm of life on our nation's college campuses.

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Sustainable Agriculture Scholarship


Annie' s Homegrown believes that healthy soils and healthy farms are the foundation for healthy foods, which help make healthy people! Therefore, they are proud to support the next generation of farmers. Their philosophy is: Planet to Food. Food to People. People to Planet.

Since their products are made with ingredients sourced from sustainable farms run by farmers who understand the interconnectedness of all things, they have established a scholarship program to assist undergraduate and graduate students who are pursuing studies in Sustainable and Organic Agriculture.

Annie’s Homegrown will award $50,000 in scholarship funds to students studying sustainable and organic agriculture. Up for grabs this year are:

  • Two (2) $10,000 Undergraduate Scholarships
  • One (1) $10,000 Graduate Scholarship
  • Four (4) $2,500 Undergraduate Scholarships
  • Four (4) $2,500 Graduate Scholarships

Annie's Homegrown Sustainable Agriculture Scholarship Program is open to full time undergraduate and graduate students beginning or returning to an accredited 2 or 4 year technical or college program or graduate school in the U.S. Students must be focusing on classes in sustainable agriculture and have at least one more year before completing their degree.

For application materials and additional information, go to www.annies.com/programs/sustainable_agriculture_scholarship.htm

Annie's accepts applications postmarked between June 1st and September 30th, 2007. Final decisions will be made by January, 2008, and funds will be dispersed on or around February 15, 2008.



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