Throughout the last one hundred years, agricultural education at universities has morphed into education for sustainability to train students through a holistic approach, linking practical, hands-on applications of farm and garden-based skills and knowledge to environmental education with the intention of creating environmental stewards. Food and agriculture systems require students to consider the relationships among complex social, political, economic and environment phenomena that are grounded in specific place. Students think ecologically about watersheds, bioregions, food sheds, consumption choices, natural and human systems, policy and design. Farms on university campuses empower students to get involved.