College of Wooster Libraries publishes oral histories of local farmers

With the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Next Generation Libraries Grant, students taking Innovations in Agroecology taught by Dr. Matthew Mariola from the College of Wooster travelled throughout Wayne County, Ohio with digital audio recorders to interview local farmers, learning about their daily lives, their agricultural processes and their thoughts on hot issues in farming such as organic food, genetically modified crops, and government subsidies. A partnership with the College of Wooster Library's Digital Resource Commons (DRC) will ensure the long term digital preservation of these oral histories. We hope you find the work these students did as interesting as we did.

Link to Farmer Oral History Collection - http://drc.wooster.edu/handle/2374.COLLW/9