An explanation...

I know that in my welcome post I said I wanted to talk about ag-related activism at UMD, and I thought I should take a minute to explain why I haven't done that. It turns out that a lot of the organizations that I thought would be engaged in activist work just aren't. They're very internally focused: for instance, there's a club that addresses issues of natural resource management, but they're more interested in educating themselves than trying to engage with other people or change things. I did use the topics these groups are addressing to come up with ideas for posts, though, so I hope I've at least succeeded in showing what kinds of issues Maryland students are thinking about- and hopefully taking action on in the future!