ILC

Student or Group Info

Name(s): Nicco Mantone and Mila H
Term: Spring 2023
Credits: 2
Title of ILC or Group Project: Place-Based Thinking in a Community Garden

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Program of Project Description

Description:

This single quarter contract, titled Place-Based Thinking in a Community Garden, is designed to connect students and community members to the Evergreen State College Community Gardens, as well as compile the history of the Community Garden Spaces. Students will source historical documents relevant to the Community Gardens, create and maintain a website dedicated to the Community Gardens’ past, present, and future, and connect the Evergreen community to the gardens through place-based observational thinking, creative group problem solving, adaptive communication, co-coordination of community gardening spaces, and reciprocity within nature and community.

To achieve these goals, students will work collaboratively with co-coordinators, peers, and community to understand and help meet individual and collective needs relating to food, land connection, and community spaces. Students will work to build a S.C.A.R.F community garden website with historical and current data to better connect students to garden spaces.

Students will document progress through photo documentation of practice in the field, individual work logs, and website completion.

Texts for the program include: Sowing Seeds in the Desert: Natural Farming, Global Restoration, and Ultimate Food Security by Masanobu Fukuoka

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 To learn skills in place-based observational thinking, creative group problem solving, adaptive communication, co-coordination of community gardening spaces, and reciprocity within nature and community. We will work collaboratively with our co-coordinators, peers, and community to understand and help meet individual and collective needs relating to food, land connection, and community spaces. We will work to build a S.C.A.R.F community garden website with historical and current data to better connect students to garden spaces. Our sponsor will evaluate our progress through photo documentation of practice in the field, our individual work logs, and our website completion.

Evaluation of Work

  • WordPress ePortfolio
  • Final week ten presentation
  • Narrative evaluations from field supervisor and/or subcontractor
  • Narrative mid-quarter and final self-evaluations