Campus Community Garden 2012

September 13, 2012

University Relations

A group of UAF students, staff and faculty worked together to create a space for growing nutritious foods and a healthy community on the UAF campus. After just one season, UAF's Campus Community Garden has been met with great success and support.  With the help of the UAF People's Endowment and the Office of Sustainability and RISE Board, grants were acquired to build or gather the infrastructure and tools necessary to implement a community garden on campus during the summer of 2012. By June, garden plots were available to UAF students, staff, and faculty. The efforts resulted in 42 raised beds planted with fruits, vegetables and flowers providing organic foods for the gardeners and their families. In the coming weeks,  the garden will be closed for the season, but gardeners are planning for next spring and summer. Organizers will monitor interest for gardening plots for next summer and are planning to open registration for the available garden plots in March 2013. If there is sufficient interest, they may propose to expand the campus community garden next spring.

If you would like to keep informed about the campus community garden and the availability of garden plots, please join their email listserv by going here:
https://groups.google.com/a/alaska.edu/d/forum/uaf-campuscommunitygarden
or email us at: uaf-campuscommunitygarden@alaska.edu and ask to be put on the email list.