Kassie Miedema will defend her thesis “Urban Agriculture as an Agent for Social Change” on September 16 at 11:00 AM in ARC 3003. Her work proposes the creation of healthy, socially inclusive public and private spaces that reconnect people to nature through urban agriculture in London Ontario.

Patti Beaulieu will defend her thesis entitled “Forgotton Landscapes: Restoring our Rural Imagination” on Thursday September 10th at 10am in ARC 1001. Her thesis challenges the existing remediation approaches to problems of dryland agriculture in Western Australia by attempting to address the disconnect between consumers and their rural footprint.