Sustainable Agriculture Students on Tour

Owner: UKAgriculture

20 April 2011

Duration: 03:40

Channel: UKAg Video News

Tags: Sustainable Agriculture, Agriculture, Tour, Capstone, Food Systems

A sustainable agriculture degree program is a young and growing one at the University of Kentucky. Each year during UK's spring break, sustainable ag-major students enrolled in a senior level "capstone" class get the chance to see different types of agriculture and food systems around the country by going on a study trip. This year's tour took a northern route from Kentucky through Amish country in Ohio and Pennsylvania to some urban farming in Baltimore, eventually ending up in Western Virginia and Eastern Kentucky. The trip gave the students lots to see and even more to think about.

Kentucky's First Sheep Dairy Up and Running

Owner: UKAgriculture

20 April 2011

Duration: 03:21

Channel: UKAg Video News

Tags: Dairy, Sheep Dairy, Good Shepherd, Cheese, Cheesemaking, Farm Enterprises, Extension

It takes a leap of faith for a person to take a buyout from their job, buy a farm and a few sheep, and plan to open a dairy. In fact it will be the first sheep dairy in Kentucky when it is in production. But that is what the Dotson family did in what they call a "spiritual undertaking" because they were lead to do something different with their lives and soon you will be able to buy cheese produced by the Dotson's under the name "Good Shepherd Cheese".