The Farm has two kinds of growing spaces: annual vegetable production plots and our demonstration plots. Growing vegetables takes up the majority of our intensively cultivated acre. This is where we grow produce for year-round donation to food security organizations. Our demonstration plots – the Cackalacky Heritage Garden and the Southeast American Indian Garden – are used more for class visits and seed-saving endeavors that foster collaboration with partners across Duke's academic departments. These plots offer students the opportunity to contribute to a growing body of research around sustainability that is rigorous, integrated, and connected to real communities and stories, offering opportunities for hands-on learning beyond the classroom, rooting students’ learning in place. These plots, which speak to the history of North Carolina’s agricultural system throughout time, offer unique insight into the world we now inhabit. We offer them as spaces of learning, open to all.