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Great Opportunities in Urban Agriculture: Planning for Teaching in Non-Traditional Programs

Kerry Martens

˜The œAgricultural education magazine

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This paper recounts the author's personal experience in a regional suburban agricultural education program in Connecticut, detailing how it changed their career goals and led them to become an agriculture teacher. The author reports acquiring transferable skills, such as record-keeping and working within a budget through a portfolio-based SAE project. The experience concludes that large, suburban agricultural education programs offer great opportunities.