| Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 50.16 |
| Liaison | Lissette Hernandez |
| Submission Date | Sept. 20, 2013 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Florida International University
ER-T2-2: Organic Garden
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
0.25 / 0.25 |
Does the institution have an on-campus garden where students are able to gain organic farming and/or gardening experience?:
A brief description of the garden:
The FIU Organic Garden was established during the Summer 2007 semester on the southwest corner of the Modesto Maidique campus, adjacent to the university’s 11-acre Nature Preserve. It was started as a research plot by one of the graduate students for his master's project.
The FIU Organic Garden is a hands-on teaching facility where students gain experiential learning about food production and its relationship to the ecosystem through gardening and plotted experiments. The garden contains 9 distinct areas for research and education: shade house, class plots, community plots, herb garden, fruit grove, meditation gardening, composting, biofuels, and aquaponics.
Two entities are involved in the maintenance and operation of the garden: the Agroecology program and the Garden Club. The garden is a USDA sponsored 'People's Choice' Garden.
The website URL where information about the garden is available:
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