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EMU is holding its annual “Food and Farming Week” Monday through Saturday, Mar. 23-28. <\/p>\n

Activities will open with a presentation 8 p.m. Monday, Mar. 23 in Suter Science Center room 109 on “food issues in Africa.” The presenter is Debbie Scott, who recently completed a three-year term of service in Nairobi, Kenya with Mennonite Central Committee, Akron, Pa. <\/p>\n

Ms. Scott served with ACORD, a pan-African organization working for social justice and equality. Her focus was on agricultural trade policy analysis. <\/p>\n

Author Mark Winne will discuss his recent book, Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty<\/em>, 8 p.m. Tuesday, Mar. 24, in the Common Grounds Coffeehouse in the University Commons. Facilitating students are from Dr. Dan Wessner’s pre-law capstone course, “Law, Values and Worldview.” <\/p>\n

Res Judicata, EMU’s pre-law<\/a> student organization, is co-sponsoring the event. <\/p>\n

A petting zoo will be set up on the front lawn of campus, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday, Mar. 26. Bread baking will take place 7 p.m. that day in the Maplewood residence hall lounge. <\/p>\n

Persons can meet 10 a.m. Saturday, Mar. 28 in front of the University Commons to bike or carpool to the Harrisonburg Downtown Farmers Market. A workday will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday in the EMU garden at the corner of Mt. Clinton Pike and College Ave. <\/p>\n

For more information on Food and Farming Week, contact first-year EMU Student Daniel H. Sigmans, daniel.sigmans@emu.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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