The Greenhouse Project Summer 2023

Research This week I did some more research on other colleges’ food systems and sustainable programming infrastructure, but mainly focused on compiling my conclusions from this project, as well as from some of the research papers and case studies I read. Evergreen has programs that look a lot like some of the colleges I have […]

This week I continued researching sustainability projects, farms, and food systems at other colleges. This document is a continuation of last week, so week 8 writing begins at number 4 on page 2. I found the College of Atlantic to be a particularly interesting college to investigate. I also made dramatic progress on the greenhouse […]

Research The College Campus as a Living Laboratory for Meaningful Food Systems Transformation by Jason R. Evans and April M. Roggio. This week I read “The College Campus as a Living Laboratory for Meaningful Food Systems Transformation” by Jason R. Evans and April M. Roggio. In this paper, they argue that college campuses are communities […]

Research This week I read “Campus Food Movements and Community Service-Learning: Mobilizing Partnerships through the Good Food Challenge in Canada” by Charles Z. Levkoe, Simon Erlich, and Sarah Archibald. This paper highlighted Community Service Learning (CSL) as a strategy on food systems change starting in the college classroom using three contexts in which to observe, […]

This week I had a personal emergency so my updates will be brief. I have started reading “Campus Food Movements and Community Service-Learning: Mobilizing Partnerships through the Good Food Challenge in Canada” by Charles Z. Levkoe, Simon Erlich, Sarah Archibald. I will have a longer summary next week but I am enjoying learning about the […]

Greenhouse Project I have fully shifted away from my original plan and moved into the ILC space plan. My goal now is to revive the space for ILC students to use for six months at a time, create a guide for students on writing greenhouse ILCs, how to “open” and “close” the greenhouse at the […]

Greenhouse Work 07/11/23- The plants have a place to stay! After meeting with Harry from SCARF to talk about the Harvest Festival he was able to get me s space for them in the student garden plots by the soccer fields. I have moved them over there, I decided to leave them in smaller pots […]

Greenhouse Work 07/03/23 – Over the weekend I bought an outdoor thermometer to measure the temperature of the greenhouse and today I did a ventilation test with the door open to see what the temperature would be at peak sunlight hours. Even with the door open since the morning the internal temperature was 110 °. Plants […]

Research This week I am starting with the abstract and first two chapters of “Connecting Living and Learning about Sustainability: Installing an Edible Forest Garden in Campus Housing at The Evergreen State College” which is a thesis paper by Natalie Pyrooz and saved in the Evergreen Digital Archives, and the introduction to “Food and Urbanism” […]