The Student P-Patch Garden at UW
I want to take a moment to talk about where food is growing closest to us: two on-campus gardens. The (slightly) older of the two, known as the Urban Farm, grows near the two Botany Greenhouses on the south end of campus. Anyone interested is welcome to garden there - just join the email list or check out the website to hear about opportunities - and all gardeners share in the harvest.
I spearheaded the creation of the Student P-Patch Garden, shown in the picture, last spring, with the help of the Urban Gardeners and students in SEED, the residence hall environmental group. In this garden, each student or group of students tends one garden plot. This garden is intended to give residence hall students a sense of ownership over a place that they wouldn't otherwise have in the dorms.
Both of these projects, along with the dozens of other school farms across the country, yield a substantial amount of produce, but their main product is food for thought. Student gardens open students' eyes to food issues and teach them the basics of growing their own food. We need more gardens like this for food sovereignty and sustainable food systems to take root again in the United States.
Ariana Rose Taylor-Stanley
I spearheaded the creation of the Student P-Patch Garden, shown in the picture, last spring, with the help of the Urban Gardeners and students in SEED, the residence hall environmental group. In this garden, each student or group of students tends one garden plot. This garden is intended to give residence hall students a sense of ownership over a place that they wouldn't otherwise have in the dorms.
Both of these projects, along with the dozens of other school farms across the country, yield a substantial amount of produce, but their main product is food for thought. Student gardens open students' eyes to food issues and teach them the basics of growing their own food. We need more gardens like this for food sovereignty and sustainable food systems to take root again in the United States.
Ariana Rose Taylor-Stanley
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