Kicking Off the Fall Semester, Down on the Farm

Welcome back to @RooseveltU, students and faculty! Here in the Sustainability Studies program, we’ve got several experiential learning (EXL) courses going, both F2F and online. One of these is SUST 350 Service & Sustainability, in which students complete a 10-week service project of 2-3 hours/week that contributes in some way to their community’s sustainability and/or resilience.

One group of students in SUST 350 is volunteering each Tuesday morning at Eden Place Farms, an urban farm in the South Side neighborhood of Fuller Park. Here are some photos from last week’s workday, which marked the 7th fall RU students have worked at Eden Place.

Harvesting tomatoes and zucchini @Eden Place Farms (photo: M. Bryson, 2021)
Talking with Mr. Michael Howard, co-founder and executive director of Eden Place (photo: M. Bryson, 2021)
Displaying our morning’s harvest: good work, Eden Place team! (photo: M. Bryson, 2021)

Later this semester, students in SUST 350 will publish short essays here on the SUST @ RU blog about their service projects and various urban sustainability topics. Stay tuned for these and other posts about our work at Eden Place this fall!

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