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Carolina Community Garden
The Carolina Community Garden (CCG) aims to grow vegetables and fruit so that all UNC employees have access to fresh, sustainably grown produce through the shared efforts of staff, students, faculty, and local residents and to serve as a learning community for developing gardening skills, healthy living, social responsibility, and interdisciplinary academic pursuits.
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Edible Campus UNC
Edible Campus UNC creates working landscapes across the UNC Chapel Hill campus to facilitate student engagement in food and agriculture sustainability.
Our mission is to promote health and well-being through positive interactions with plants and nature.
Horticultural Therapy
Horticultural therapy provides gardening and nature experiences to underserved populations in the Triangle.
Outreach News
Winter Harvest at the Carolina Community Garden
After a holiday break, masked, distanced volunteers returned to the Carolina Community Garden (CCG) last week. They cleared and prepped beds, planted spinach seedlings, uncovered and recovered row covers, and harvested 86 pounds of Chinese cabbage, turnips, radishes, mustard greens, lettuce, kale, collards, green onions, carrots, and the first beets of the season. That produce…
Edible Campus Collaborates to Release New Cookbook
Edible Campus and Carolina Cupboard were created because too many students don’t have access to healthy, affordable, food resources on campus. In addition, making healthy meals on a budget can pose a problem to college students. That’s why Edible Campus, APPLES Service Learning, and Carolina Cupboard teamed up to create a cookbook that incorporates foods…
Volunteer Spotlight: Adelaide
As a part of our ongoing volunteer highlighting series, we’d like to highlight Adelaide this week. Adelaide started volunteering at CCG in the Spring of 2018 as a part of a class requirement and has continued to volunteer on weekends after graduating. Adelaide has always loved working outside and enjoys the community that is so…