Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 65.14
Liaison Alexis Reyes
Submission Date June 3, 2011
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Pomona College
ER-T2-2: Organic Garden

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.25 / 0.25 Ginny Routhe
Director
Sustainability Integration Office
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Does the institution have an on-campus garden where students are able to gain organic farming and/or gardening experience?:
Yes

A brief description of the garden:

Pomona's Organic Farm promotes sustainable food production and a greater understanding of food and agriculture through both academic and co-curricular spaces. The community garden space focuses on small-scale plots, perennial tree fruit production, and sustainable/land-integrated agriculture. The academic space emphasizes experimentation and larger-scale crop production for teaching and learning (though still small, biodynamic, Permaculture-based practice). Both spaces practice 100% organic agriculture methods. The mission of the Farm is twofold: first, to provide the students, faculty, staff and community members of Claremont with a means for education exploration in the fields of Permaculture, organic farming, alternative architecture and sustainability, and second, to provide a working model of ecologically-based crop production. The Farm hosts events yearround and is also home to chickens, bees, a solar oven, and other tools for sustainable living.


The website URL where information about the garden is available:
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