“I believe that one of the main problems among young people is that they’re land-illiterate,” says Louis Allen, Southern University and A&M College alumnus.

In this short film, we explore how ancestral knowledge on farming and cooking combine with the traditional higher education toolkit—like research and subject mastery—to impact agricultural teaching and practice in areas throughout Louisiana.

“So whether you go to a [college] to get what they would classify as a traditional education,” says Allen. “Or you get an original education, [in] which you learn a lot of subtleties from the land.” Listen to Allen’s—and many others’—sentiments on agricultural education.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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