<p>
	<img alt="" src="{filedir_5}ECOAG_3.jpg" style="width: 250px; height: 188px; float: right;" />There are few skills more practical, or more biblical, than that of growing your own food, and doing it the right way. Adam&rsquo;s first responsibility was tending a garden. Today, amidst all the technology and complexity of modern life, understanding the basics of an ecological approach to agriculture has never been more important. That practicality is vividly presented to students in Au Sable&rsquo;s course, Ecological Agriculture. Offered at Au Sable&rsquo;s Pacific Rim Campus in the central portion of Washington&rsquo;s Whidbey Island, a region of active and diverse agricultural activity, Ecological Agriculture, Ecological Agriculture offers students an opportunity to learn how to make an agricultural system as productive and an environmentally valuable as the natural system it replaces. Instead of the usual one-dimensional approach typical of modern industrial farming, Ecological Agriculture shows students how to design agricultural systems that can achieve multiple outcomes that not only produce food, but create stable communities, vibrant and diverse economies, and healthy environments.</p>
