Meet the People
The Organic Program is sustained by both on- and off-campus supporters. The planning committee includes faculty from academic departments from three colleges, as well as staff from the Arboretum and the Child Care and Learning Centre (CCLC), together with representatives of the Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario (EFAO), the Canadian Organic Growers (COG), and FarmStart.
Departments and Colleges
Primary responsibility for the Program is vested in Guelph’s Plant Agriculture Department and the School of Environmental Sciences, both within the Ontario Agricultural College (OAC). Teachers contributing to the organic major come from these departments, as well as from Environmental Biology (EVB), Food, Agriculture, and Resource Economics (FARE), and the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development (SEDRD), also within the OAC; from Family Relations and Nutrition, Sociology and Anthropology, and Geography, within the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences; and from Hospitality and Tourism Management within the College of Management and Economics. Thus, expertise supporting the organic program is broadly based, spanning diverse departments and colleges across campus.
In addition, each of the three diploma-granting regional campuses affiliated with Guelph offers organic courses as well.
Director
Overall Program direction is provided by E. Ann Clark, an Associate Professor in Plant Agriculture.
Coordinator of the B.Sc.(Agr) Organic Agriculture major
E. Ann Clark and Paul Voroney, a Professor in Land Resource Science, are co-coordinators.
Coordinator of the GCUOF
Martha Gay Scroggins, a commercial urban organic market gardener, shares her extensive knowledge with volunteers, students, and the broader community through day to day activities with volunteers, as well as short courses and a planned year-long certificate.
