The urgent issues impacting the U.S. and global communities today open new horizons for deep inquiry into relevant, timely curriculum content and for re-examining parameters of education's role in the cultivation of new mindsets. Finding common ground will mean translating conceptions of justice from societal equity to environmental sustainability and back again, that is "... fundamentally an ethical challenge and must also be addressed at the levels of people's values" (Dahl, 2012, p.18). The co-authors of this article explore the contributions of an innovative experiential learning program in a California farmworker community to the development of integrated solutions, working toward a food/agriculture system that acknowledges the "complex terrain at the confluence" of both social and environmental justice concerns (Campbell, 2013, p. 76).