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Patriot Produce Sustainable Garden

Patriot Produce Sustainable Garden. Lizzie, Rose, Jacqueline, Stuart, and Andrew. Sustainable Foods. What’s wrong with our food?. Additives Antibiotics Food Irradation Genetic Engineering Hormones Pesticides. How is it effecting the environment?. Air pollution Green house gases

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Patriot Produce Sustainable Garden

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  1. Patriot ProduceSustainable Garden Lizzie, Rose, Jacqueline, Stuart, and Andrew

  2. Sustainable Foods

  3. What’s wrong with our food? • Additives • Antibiotics • Food Irradation • Genetic Engineering • Hormones • Pesticides

  4. How is it effecting the environment? • Air pollution • Green house gases • Climate change • Factory farming • Greenhouse gases • Animal waste • Water pollution/eutrophication • In human treatment • Poor work conditions

  5. How it is effecting the environment? Cont. • Biodiversity • Diversity in soil microbes • Decomposition and nutrient cycling • More species • Better pollination • Food security • Less vulnerable to disease/pests

  6. What does it mean to be “organic”? • Biodiversity • Ecological balance • Sustainability • Natural plant fertilization • Natural pest management • Soil integrity sustainabletable.org/issues

  7. Campus Sustainabilityat Mason

  8. Mason’s Current Efforts • STARS rating –SILVERSTAR • Sustainable Endowments Institute Green Report Card • Overall: B- • Food & Recycling: B • Dining Services Mile Markers • Buys over 10% of its food locally • Offers vegetarian & vegan meal options • Composting efforts (Southside)

  9. Mason’s Current Efforts • Dining Services Mile markers (Cont’d) • 50% of beef & poultry purchased is free range • 85% of purchased milk is hormone free • GOGA – George Mason’s Organic Garden Assoc. • Potomac Heights Garden • Greenhouse • *NEW* Sprouts

  10. Our PGF Proposal – Patriot Produce

  11. Patriot Produce “This project will involve creating a new organic vegetable garden on Mason’s Fairfax campus. The garden’s main function will be to provide fresh, organic produce to Southside and Mason’s other dining facilities.”

  12. Sustainable Garden Efforts by other Universities • Yale Sustainable Food Project • Established 2003 • “Engages in sustainable practices that can be continued indefinitely without causing degradation to the biological systems on which they rely.” • Crops are sold locally or donated to hunger relief project.

  13. Sustainable Garden Efforts by other Universities • Yale University (cont.) • Sustainable gardening practices: • No fertilizers used- soil only enhanced with natural minerals such as green sand and colloidal rock phosphate. • Direct seed crops • Drip tape irrigation • Growth of healthy, pest resistant plants to reduce pests.

  14. Sustainable Garden Efforts by other Universities • Santa Clara University • Inspired by Penn State Garden • Also established in 2003 • Set forth guidelines and features of a Sustainable Garden

  15. Sustainable Garden Efforts by other Universities • Santa Clara University (cont.) • Guidelines and Features for a Sustainable Garden: • Designed, managed, and maintained as an interdependent living system. • Using plants and features appropriate to the natural environment/climate. • Minimize inputs/outputs • Create a stable living system

  16. Sustainable Garden Efforts by other Universities • Santa Clara University (cont.) • Guidelines and Features for a Sustainable Garden: • Incorporates a vast diversity of plants • Includes edible plants, vegetables, and fruit trees. • Replaces lawns

  17. Patriot Produce Sustainable Garden • Project & Purpose • Expansion of GMU’s Organic Garden • Partnership with Mason Dining • Student Awareness & Involvement • Goals & Objectives • Supply Mason Dining with locally grown, organic produce • Get the Mason Community more involved in local agriculture • More awareness of human connection to the biosphere

  18. Patriot Produce • Involved Organizations/Departments • GOGA • GMU Office of Sustainability • Mason Dining/Sodexo • Mason’s Environmental Impact • Lowering our carbon footprint • Expand & protect local biodiversity • Runoff Issues

  19. Future Goals • Official Organic Certification • Cost Issue • Permaculture System • Using native plants or those that are well adapted to your local area • Regular On-Campus Farmer’s Market

  20. Mason Dining Partnership • Follow Sodexo’s approved list of products • No raw sprouts – alfalfa, radish, etc. • Continued supply of salad greens to Sprouts

  21. Works Cited • "Santa Clara University." - St. Clare Garden. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Oct. 2012. <http://www.scu.edu/stclaregarden/sustainable/>. • "Yale Sustainable Food Project | The Farm." Yale Sustainable Food Project | The Farm. Yale University, n.d. Web. 22 Oct. 2012. <http://www.yale.edu/sustainablefood/farm.html>.

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