| Overall Rating | Silver |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 51.51 |
| Liaison | Kirk Hemphill |
| Submission Date | Feb. 12, 2024 |
Florida Institute of Technology
IN-7: Community Garden
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
0.50 / 0.50 |
Ken
Lindeman Professor, Sustainability Studies Ocean Engineering & Marine Sciences |
A brief description of the institution’s community garden:
- Florida Tech's Ethos Community Garden is run by the student organization dedicated to maintaining it, the Ethos Community Garden Club. The garden is located in the Residence Quad among multiple student dormitories.
- The garden is accessible to all students, staff, faculty, and off-campus community members to grow plants for food or other purposes. Recently, this includes pineapples, aloe, and lemons.
- Users have the option to plant in an empty plot or to rent other plots to grow their own food. The focus of the club is to utilize the garden to its full potential to provide a means for anyone to grow and share plants.
- The Ethos Community Garden Club produces plants and food for the campus community, works with other student and staff organizations on other campus events, and provide organic and other sustainable gardening guidance.
Website URL where information about the community garden is available:
Estimated number of individuals that use the institution’s community garden annually:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Information from Academic Year 2022-23.
Data sourced from the Academic Sustainability Program using the university Ethos Garden website, and Slate Varn, Ethos Community Garden Club.
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