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The Department of Agriculture, Landscape, and Environment (formerly Plant Soil Science) provides hands-on learning in agroecology and landscape design. Sustainability is one lens through which decisions about land use are made. Other perspectives include soil quality, storm mitigation, and community planning.

Why study Agroecology and Landscape Design?

Learning by doing! ALE students have access to a diverse array of hands-on learning opportunities. Many of our courses include field components that make Burlington and beyond part of your classroom. Our Agroecology and Landscape Design majors are strongly linked to ¶¶Òõ̽̽’s highly recognized environmental program.

Our faculty and courses span a wide range of disciplines, offering students a customizable course of study. We study food security and sovereignty, sustainable food production, ecological landscape design, climate change in agricultural and land use systems, improvement of food crops, ecological pest management, soil health, and more.

Student carrying tray of harvested vegetables Student picking peppers at the Catamount Farm Agroecology students in field in Cuba

An Abundance of Hands-on Learning Opportunities

From working fields at the Catamount Farm to tending the orchards of HREC, through an internship with a local planning commission to a trip abroad on an agroecology adventure, the Department of Agriculture, Landscape, and Environment has nearly unlimited ways for you to get more hands-on experience.

Harvest your goals