Columbian Exchange Field Trip

Students visited one of four locations: Phat Beets, an urban farm to learn about food justice and to help weed the farm; Redwood Regional Park to discuss the ecological imbalance caused by invasive species such as French broom which they helped to remove; Ohlone School of Medicine to study the medicinal properties of plant, including some imported from the Old World, and to make a tincture salve from collected plants; UC Berkeley Epidemiology to sit in on a professor's epidemiology class followed by a trip to UC Berkeley Botanical Gardens to look at Old World and New World plants.