 Land Food and Community Series is the core series of courses in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems where we bring students from all the different disciplines within the faculty together to work on interdisciplinary challenging questions within the food system. We have these community projects that we involve students in that allow us to get them beyond the classroom and into a community setting thinking about food system issues with practitioners within the community. We're developing a food asset map for the North Shore and so we're working on a database collecting information about different resources that are geared towards food security, food recovery, sustainability, growing, harvesting, different opportunities to access food. At its most basic level it's meant to be a tool for service providers who are supporting people who are a little more vulnerable in our population who are looking to access for your low cost meals or grocery items. At a different level from that we're hoping that it'll be a really useful tool for community members and local governments when they're looking at some of the new development that's happening on the North Shore. It's been a really great experience. I think our group is super cohesive and the work with the North Shore Table Matters Network has been very supportive. They've really guided us through the project. I love working with the students. They're really passionate about this work and being able to contribute something meaningful to the community that's actually going to be used and that's valued by the members of the steering committee specifically for the Table Matters but in general I think the students get a lot out of it and so do the community partners. I think there's a big difference between like project work that you're working on an academic project versus working in the community because you have to kind of take a step back from your academic kind of like silos of knowledge and also recognize that communities and community partners have a lot of information to share, a lot of knowledge, a lot of passion and I think a big thing that I learned was how to integrate many different forms of knowledge and just learning to work together in a professional setting. It's really great to be part of learning community and having a little bit more diversity of voices and perspectives at our table I find really valuable. Inner-disciplinarity for us and trans-disciplinary when we bring in social actors beyond academia really helps us get our students to prepare for what is it like to talk to individuals and work on a project although you might not share the same disciplinary language, disciplinary perspectives or even social locations within society and how you work together to effectively address common issues.