In the Spring of 2011 a handful of students gathered together to participate in creating an organic community vegetable garden on campus.  The ground was tilled and compost laid to ensure plenty of nutrients in the soil before planting.  Students from the biology department started tomato and pepper seedlings, experiments of the genetics department.  Other students donated organic heirloom vegetable  varieties no longer in modern agricultural production.  This culmination of the  genetically engineered seed varieties, less common heirlooms and plot of land waiting to be planted initiated the community garden.

We are currently in our first planting season with a variety of vegetables growing, including tomatoes, okra, corn, squash, beans, watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew, pepper varieties,sweet potatoes, basil, nasturtium, sunflowers, wildflowers and a few peas that haven’t gotten too hot yet.