FSU Community Garden

1. FSU Community Garden Robert AuclairJustin PaladiniMelissa Price Jeremiah Xavier

2. Garden of Eat’n • Purpose? -To provide food and education to the Framingham community • Long term goal -Expand the garden within available space and then add satellite locations throughout campus

3. The Plan

4. Where

5. Construction • Supplies • Wire Fence • Shovels • Raised Beds • Building Materials • Supplies • Tomato Cage • Seeds • Bone Meal • Hose

6. Garden Layout 16’ 3’ 4’ Mint Cilantro 14’ 8’ Tomato Squash 2’ 3’ Basil Mint

7. TomatoesBrandywine • 4 plants • Dining Commons • Sauce, soups, raw, etc. • Rich in Lycopene • Vibrant red color • So easy to be grown that they can even grow upside down

8. Summer SquashZucchini • Grows fast • Folate • Carotenoids • Dining Commons • Grilled, sautéed, baked etc. • May reduce chance of type 2 diabetes

9. Herbs

10. Estimated Yield * The quantity of herbs can not be estimated in lbs. Estimating 15-20 cups per herb per season. -All vegetables weighed by food lab scales

11. Staffing

12. Advisory Board Note: Done in alphabetical order

13. Megan Carroll • Duties • Scientific approach to planting • Biological consultant to campus garden • Meeting with advisors twice a season

14. Ralph Eddy • Duties • Relays importance of community garden to the Dining Commons • Incorporates new menu choices • Evaluates garden with advisory board

15. Warren Fairbanks • Duties • Oversees maintenance of garden construction • Convey information to Grounds Crew • Presides over garden during summer months • Evaluates garden with advisory board twice a semester

16. Carl Hakansson • Duties • Delegation of duties to Green Team • Relaying of carbon footprint to staffing • Evaluates garden with advisory board twice a semester

17. Karen McGrail • Offers input on a practical level • Promotes education with local students • Instructs adolescent groups on garden importance • Evaluation of garden twice a semester

18. Professor Schwartz • Duties • Advising of the nutritional education of the garden • Teaching Food Citizenship • Evaluate the garden twice a semester

19. FSU Green Team • Managing/ decision making group • Subgroup • Appropriating funds • Guiding construction and development • Recruitment of volunteers • Blog • Twitter, Facebook, and Four Square • Create group, events, photos, updates • Putting the garden to bed

20. Educational Opportunities • Early childhood center/ elementary field trips • Provide vegetable “snack packs” for kids to sample • Food life cycle • Seed take home to grow their own • School Tours with Black & Gold leaders • Campus garden can be used as selling point to attract new students • Information kiosk located at garden site • Provide health benefits of vegetables and herbs • Importance of consuming locally grown, organic food

21. Marketing

22. Green Week • Time and Date- 3rd week of April • Advertisement in CC and at Green Fest • Menu modifications • Awareness Walk • Seed Planting Ceremony • Incentives for attendance for ceremony

24. Sustainability • Advisory Board meetings • Blog inputs • Sleeping • Cull tomato and squash plants • Freeze protection

25. Evaluation • Garden Blog • Kept throughout growing season • Provides data on crop yields • Useful tool for identification of what worked well and what can be improved for the following season

26. Timeline

27. Thank you very much!