CASC Agriculture and Environmental Awareness

CASC Agriculture and Environmental Awareness

This initiative from the Center for Africana Studies and Culture (CASC) in the IU School of Liberal Arts in Indianapolis seeks to catalyze Africana Studies faculty academic research and instructional design capabilities to support communities with a relationship to land stewardship as it relates to food security and environmental awareness.

The CASC partners with Legacy Taste of the Garden Farm from Princeton, Indiana, to host the Indiana Black Loam Agricultural Workshop. The conference provides outreach and technical assistance to farmers and producers throughout the State of Indiana.

CASC also works with ecologists to research issues related to learning more about how ecology and wildlife interact with humans, particularly in urban settings and how these connections can affect daily life.

CASC food security partnerships

The CASC works closely with other entities on food security projects, including the ones listed below.

Mississippi Center for Cultural Production (SIPP Culture)

CASC is working with SIPP to deeply explore the concept of Cultural Production and will work with them to develop their curriculum and cultivate the center as a site of learning for Africana Studies students at IU Indianapolis as the program further conceptualizes a domestic study away program.

Legacy Taste of the Garden at Lyles Station

CASC co-sponsors the Indiana Black Loam Workshops.

More information

For more information on CASC food security projects, contact Les Etienne, Founding Executive Director.