TThis course will explore the principles of human impact through time on ecological landscapes and how these principles can guide contemporary and future communities in the design of sustainable agricultural systems. Using interdisciplinary methods borrowed from oral history, archival science, historical archeology, ecology, and agricultural anthropology, this class will explore the historical ecology of a farm located along Golden Grove Creek, Oglethorpe County, Georgia. Several UGA classes in the past have focused on this same area as a part of a long-term plan to re-create a historical education farm dedicated to sustainable living. Students in earlier classes have reconstructed the ownership of the farm from the 1790s to the present, written histories of specific periods, conducted ethnobotanical surveys of useful plants, helped erect historical log buildings and even implemented the first community-support agriculture (CSA) program in the Athens area. We have envisioned a “trail of time” with four interpretive farming sites: Native American, Pioneer (circa 1800), Yeoman (1875-1960), and a Sustainable Farm of today. See Agrarian Connections webpage at www.lanra.uga.edu/rhoades/agconn/.