Keyword: farming

Sunday@CMU: August 2024

Sunday, August 11, 2024 @ 12:00 AM

Seasonal Reflections on Food, Faith, and Land

This month on Sunday@CMU, we are rebroadcasting reflections from Kenton Lobe, Teaching Assistant Professor of International Development and Environmental Studies at CMU. In addition to teaching part-time, Kenton runs a small community shared agriculture farm in Neubergthal, Manitoba. Throughout this series, he explores the relationship between food, faith, and land.

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Sunday@CMU: April 2023

Sunday, April 2, 2023 @ 12:00 AM

Seasonal Reflections on Food, Faith, and Land

This month on Sunday@CMU, we are hearing from Kenton Lobe, Teaching Assistant Professor of International Development and Environmental Studies at CMU. In addition to teaching part-time, Kenton runs a small community shared agriculture farm in Neubergthal, Manitoba. In this new series of meditations, he offers reflections on food, faith, and land.

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Creation care as career: spotlight on alumni farmers (part 3 of 4)

Thursday, October 15, 2020 @ 10:00 AM

In the age of Climate Change the adage "think global, act local" is more freighted than ever. This alumna farmer is taking it to the bank.

Arianna Hildebrand (BA International Development Studies, 2018) has been farming on small eco-farms for the last three seasons. In just a few short years, she has fallen truly in love with the life:

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CMU Farm opens on 10th anniversary season

Thursday, May 14, 2020 @ 10:20 AM

Now expanded to two locations totalling 15 acres, the Metanoia Farmers Cooperative celebrates 10 years of learning, growing, and farming for change.

You may have heard of "emerging writers" or recognize the phrase "emergent church," but did you ever hear of emerging farmers?

The Metanoia Farmers Cooperative is a group of CMU students and alumni; though individual memberships shift with time, the collective as a whole is permanently responsible for running the CMU Farm, and working 14 acres of associated land near the village of Neubergthal. All of them are emerging farmers: lovers of God's good creation motived by their faith to learn and develop skills they may or may not have grown up with, in order to become practitioners of sustainable agriculture.

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Faculty: In Their Own Words – Kenton Lobe

Wednesday, March 1, 2017 @ 9:00 AM

Kenton Lobe, Instructor in International Development Studies, has taught at CMU since 2005.

What do you love about your work here?

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