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Natuculture has spread beyond the N.C. A&T campus. Partnerships have been and are being developed with five K-12 campuses and also with a health care facility for the underserved. The partners are General Greene Elementary School, Aycock and Neal Middle Schools, Dudley and Southern High Schools, and CAARE, a non-profit organization that promotes a holistic and community approach to health and seeks to address disparities in health care access. Most of these campuses are underserved with predominantly African-African and Hispanic populations. Natuculture can be a transition for permaculture. When several natuculture systems stably synergize, the site is transformed into a permaculture system. ‘Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people — providing their food, energy, shelter, and other materials and non-material needs in a sustainable way. The philosophy behind permaculture is one of working with, rather than against nature; and of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless action (http://permaculture.org.au/what-is-permaculture/). Thanks are extended to the Environmental Protection Agency’s People, Prosperity, and Planet (P3) student design contest, which triggered this idea and provided funding for students to carry out designs and compete nationally, and to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)-Natural Resources Conservation Service for supporting student scholars who acted on this idea. Additional support was provided by the USDA-National Institute of Food and Agriculture 1890 Capacity Building and Evans-Allen Formula grants, concepts in conservation agriculture were learned from a United States Agency for International Development SANREM-CRSP project in Southeast Asia, and technical expertise was provided by NC State University and N.C. A&T Cooperative Extension. 8
9 The University Farm Farm Manager Leon Moses is inspecting hay that is stored at the farm. The notill farm produces its own hay throughout the regular cropping season to feed our animal herds of sheep, goat, beef and dairy cows during winter months. The farm also grows cover crops on all land that is used for corn, soybean and wheat.
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