pAgriCultures invites feed to field” engagement with practices of consumption that also consume. To explore how media cooks humanity in this fall-winter-spring series of programs, weapos;ll focus on how agricultural grift intersects with agricultural craft to create the possibility for regenerative media and food systems. From the processing of authentic Belgian milk chocolate, Kataifi pastry, and Italian pistachio cream to its viral production on TikTok, Dubai Chocolate (as both global trend and case study in Evergreen programs) seeds our inquiry.  Where, when, how, and for whom is eating an agricultural act?  Why have the vast majority of chocolate eaters never seen a cacao tree and an even vaster majority of cacao farmers never tasted chocolate? How do measures of sustainability, soil-to-society health, biodiversity, flavor, ethical sourcing, supply chain visibility, and traceability influence adaptive strategies for resilience, equity, and cultural continuity? As an intentional learning community, we’ll consider the histories of global foods and their mediatization. How might the seemingly universal tendency to absorb, transform or otherwise consume that which we identify as not us” identify food’s power as medium and message?  Why did emwho /emtransition from being what we ate, to being made ill by what our food ate, to having our attention consumed by tweeting rather than eating,” to being consumers of TikTok cookbooks by influencers, rather than authentic” cooks and authors?/ppWith increasing intention and intensity we’ll move between experiencing how food is produced and consumed to reading about, watching, and seminaring on food in climate fiction and documentaries. Place-based learning during weekly farm and food hub practicums as well as field trips (The NW Chocolate Festival, Culinary Breeding Network events) will mirror the frame of AgriCultures. Why? As Wendell Berry puts it, the circumstances, the place, emknowing/em your place—is all-important. Thereapos;s this thing I wrote, apos;Eating is an agricultural act.apos;”/pdiv class="x_elementToProof"divFaculty will model as well as support students in pursuing individual or small group projects in relation to shared program themes and community partnerships using in-program Individual Learning Contracts./divdivspanThis class includes a required end of week one field trip to the Northwest Chocolate Festival, Saturday and Sunday October 3 and 4./span/divdivStudents interested in the winter quarter study abroad of the AgriCultures series are required to participate in the fall quarter coursestrong Cocoa and Permaculture in Jamaica: Preparing to Study Abroad. /strongContact the faculty for instructions if you need to reduce your credits in AgriCultures to accommodate this course./divpstrongAnticipated Credit Equivalencies:/strong/pp4 - Food Systems/pp4 - Farm and Food Hub Practicum/pp4 - Film and Media Studies/pp4 - Student Research Project/p/div