Acknowledgments
We are deeply grateful to various colleagues, funders, and friends for theirsupport of this project. We are especially grateful to Michael Tassio, Aaron Zachmeier, and their team at the University of California, Santa Cruz Online Education Office for supporting the blended online/in-person community discussion which was foundational to the success of this project. We are also appreciative for support from our undergraduate research assistants: Arien Hernandez, Alycia Bernardino, and Sidney Short. We are grateful for financial support for the project from Peter Coha, Kathleen Rose, the UCSC FoundationBoard of Trustees, UCSC Office of Research, the UCSC Office of OnlineEducation, UCSC Dean of Social Sciences Katharyne Mitchell, the UCSC Dean of Physical and Biological Sciences Paul Koch, UCSC Sustainability Director Elida Erickson, the UCSC Department of Environmental Studies, and contributors Kate O’Neill and Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz. Thank you to the Institute for Social Transformation for staff support from the UCSC Center for Agroecology for discounted use of the Cowell Ranch Hay barn. Finally, we thank the contributors to this volume for taking a risk and participating in this experiment. We are deeply grateful for your time, trust, wisdom, and friendship.