Friday, March 27, 2009
Students will have the chance to get their hands dirty this Sunday from 10:30 a.m. to noon at the campus garden, located behind University Relations on Louisiana Street between 13th and 14th Streets.
The Environmental Action to Revitalize the Heartland, will have its first planting day this Sunday.
Margaret Tran, Derby junior and co-coordinator of EARTH, said tomatoes, radishes, lettuce and spinach were some of the seeds that would be planted. Tran said the food would be donated to the ECKAN Just Food Pantry in Lawrence.
A member of The Environmental Action to Revitalize the Heartlands pulls out radishes to donate to Lawrence charities. The group harvests vegetables and donates them to ECKAN Just Food Pantry, which distributes the food to the needy and other food pantries.
Tran said group members usually contacted workers at Cottins Hardware & Rental. Sunrise Nursery or Clinton Parkway Nursery to ask for seed donations. Tran said most seeds for the first planting came from Cottins Hardware & Rental.
“We take seeds that local businesses would normally throw out,” Tran said. “It just depends on who approaches us or who has stuff available. Whoever has something, they just let us know.”
Tran said the campus garden was open for students to visit and enjoy, and said volunteering to plant would not only help the community, but would also help the student volunteers.
“It’s a great way to meet people and do something hands-on with sustainability,” Tran said. “And there are a lot of rising food costs, and as college students it’s important to learn how to grow food yourself to decrease how much money you spend.”
Tran said for the first planting day last year, around 20 volunteers showed up to help plant. She said she hoped to see a similar number at the campus garden this year. Tran said this Sunday would kick off regular volunteer hours, which would be every Sunday from 10:30 a.m. to noon, and every Tuesday from 5 to 7 p.m.
Maddie Fry, co-coordinator of EARTH, said her work with the group helped her become more environmentally aware.
“I’ve learned a lot about how eating locally benefits the environment,” Fry said.
Tran said the vegetables ripened at different times during the season, and that radishes were usually ready for harvest first.
“It’s ongoing, so whenever something is ripe we pick it and start donating it,” Tran said. “Last fall we were donating stuff like once a week.”
Fry said the ECKAN Just Food Pantry not only distributed food to low-income families in Lawrence, but also to other food pantries around Lawrence.
— — Edited by Sam Speer
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