W&L Alum To Speak In Campus Kitchen Series
Area residents are invited to join the Campus Kitchen at Washington and Lee University for the next installment of its 2025-26 Just Food event series.
Patrick Fleming ’04, associate professor of economics and public policy at Franklin and Marshall College, will deliver a lecture on Nov. 12 at 5 p.m. in Stackhouse Theater in Elrod Commons entitled “Farming as a Liberal Art: Growing Food with Freedom and Intention.”
An environmental and agricultural economist, Fleming studies water quality, agricultural sustainability and the evaluation of public policies intended to achieve these goals. His recent scholarship examines farm environmental policies and their effects on the Chesapeake Bay, behavioral science, legacy pollution, and survey design in the context of household environmental investments.
“Pat Fleming brings great insights to us as an academic with training in agricultural economics and ethics, and a practicing farmer,” said Art Goldsmith, the Jackson T. Stephens Professor of Economics at W&L. “He understands the challenges of improving both the quality of our nation’s food supply and its equitable distribution — along with ways to improve each.”
Fleming’s lecture is presented by the 1963 Scholars in Residence Program, the Department of Economics, the Office of Alumni Engagement and Campus Kitchen.
