1. Put a group together in your dorm to create a garden club. The club will be able to rent space on the grounds of the university and plant a garden. Also by haveing a group everyone will be able to take turns caring for the garden so it will not take up too much time.
2. Use the kitchens located in each dorm building to cook a meal when you can. This could mean once a week or once a day. Most likely you wont be able to organize a meal everyday but if you work with a group you will be able to cook in your dorm more often.
3. Learn the origins of the food you buy, and buy the food that is produced closest to your home. You can also use this knowlegde to pick local foods when in your campus food court.
4. Buy food from local farmer's markets when possible. Find one in your city and make trips as often as you can.
5. Learn as much as you can about the economy and technology of industrial food production so that you can make healthier decisions.
6. Learn what is involved in the best farming and gardening.
7. Learn as much as you can from direct observation and experience if possible.
I changed some of the points but many of Berry's suggestions can be applied to a dorm setting. If the reader really wants to live this way then they will make the effort to find reasonable ways to follow Berry's suggested actions. Also I did this asignment with USC in mind so our dorms provide kitchens and there are plenty of open spaces where someone could make a garden.
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