Community Garden @ MCC

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by Amy Greer2 views·Updated Jun 22, 2020
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  1. today I'm pitching.
  2. The idea of the community garden at NCC is broken
  3. campus. The community garden could foster collaboration between the campus
  4. and community as well as between different entities on campus,
  5. enhance education and biology agriculture until it studies and provides
  6. a look for students and families who really need it.
  7. The biggest reason that we need a community garden is
  8. because of the amount of food and security that exists
  9. on college campuses today.
  10. In April 2019 study conducted by the Hope Center for
  11. College Community and Justice reported that an estimated 48% of
  12. community college students who responded to the survey are food
  13. insecure N MCC.
  14. Specifically, in 2019 48.3% of our students received PO, which
  15. is a grant awarded to students with the highest amount
  16. of on that sign.
  17. Usual need.
  18. This means that up to half of our student body
  19. could potentially be food insecure.
  20. There are a lot of other benefits and wasted a
  21. garden would have gone to the community into MCC.
  22. Aside from helping to me, didn't you, for food insecure
  23. students part of our strategic plan at M, C.
  24. C EST etait sustainability.
  25. We could build a program that is environmentally friendly by
  26. collecting rainwater.
  27. Cop listing from the dining hall and supplying our community
  28. was locally grown food.
  29. Another part of our strategic plan of Sisi is to
  30. ensure that everything is accessible.
  31. The garden can be made accessible with wide aisles, raised
  32. garden beds and modified tools.
  33. Last ever summer, MCC hosted a healthy heroes can for
  34. school age kids.
  35. A majority of the students are CST students who participate
  36. in a wide variety of programs, and MCC at the
  37. time of the garden would be at its peak.
  38. We could partner with healthy heroes, came up for programming
  39. and flutist distribution.
  40. There are some risks to building a community garden.
  41. For example.
  42. What if we don't have support for the garden?
  43. Once it is built, there could be a loss of
  44. funding source or valuable partnership.
  45. What if we have students or guests on our campus
  46. who consistently vandalized the garden or steal from it?
  47. Prepares could become costly over time.
  48. What if we have a beautiful community garden program, a
  49. full support, and in a couple of years and dressed
  50. this lost, we will have built something amazing that will
  51. then become neglected if we don't do the garden it.
  52. Although I think there will be some things we miss
  53. out on.
  54. We will miss community buildings.
  55. Of course, we're programming common interests and the involvement of
  56. student clubs.
  57. We will miss having partnerships with on and off campus
  58. entities and miss out on individuals selecting to enroll in
  59. MCC in the future because of their already present connection
  60. to the institution.
  61. Lastly, we would be missing our chance to resolve some
  62. of the food and security in our community and on
  63. our campus.
  64. There are some ways in which we could mitigate some
  65. of the risk that could be imposed by the garden.
  66. First, we need to build strong partnerships with organizations both
  67. on and off campus.
  68. Yes, we start with campus pair partnerships.
  69. We could tap into the institutions on this council or
  70. sustainability committee.
  71. Second, we need to secure funding outside of the colleges
  72. operating budget.
  73. As I will discuss shortly.
  74. There are lots of grants that help fund community gardens.
  75. Additionally, I think some of our strategic partnerships with local
  76. schools, nurseries and agricultural programs could build bridges of funding
  77. opportunities. There were we would have to ensure that we
  78. have the right individuals moving the concept of the garden
  79. forward and helping to meet its goals for the community.
  80. Okay, the biggest question, especially in this financial climate, is
  81. how can we do this?
  82. There are a lot of waste of fund a community
  83. garden, I stated before.
  84. The American Public Gardens Association has a specific grant to
  85. assist with starting gardens at schools called Annis Grant.
  86. Other grant funding opportunities for gardens come from sources, so
  87. just Captain Planet Whole Foods and the Home Depot.
  88. Operational funding could come from SDA through the development of
  89. a student gardening club or academic departments that use the
  90. garden for coursework.
  91. A small part of a funding could also come from
  92. selling plots, donations and produce sales.
  93. Most community gardens costs about $5000 per year to run
  94. for personnel.
  95. Most gardens have a garden manager.
  96. For most institutions.
  97. This is a student club member or a paid work
  98. city. Student gardens are typically maintained by student club members,
  99. staff, families and community members.
  100. Local organizations may also provide rich partnerships with garden clubs,
  101. local agriculture and scouting programs.
  102. Where can we put our garden were already removing a
  103. temporary building from campus solely nine a.
  104. The remaining plot of ground could become the community stardom.
  105. Attached to the same side of Building nine is the
  106. conveniently located campus greenhouse.
  107. Using this area puts the project on a much faster
  108. timeline, though, as removing nine A is already in progress.
  109. If we do need to take time together, started funding,
  110. we could easily begin the build project next summer or
  111. fall before planting season.
  112. The Garden has many benefits for the institution, its students
  113. and the community.
  114. There's already an Outlines location that would be perfect to
  115. place it on.
  116. The costs could be covered by grants, donations, club funding
  117. and funding for academic programs.
  118. The biggest impact the Garden could have on our campus
  119. besides building partnerships and sustainability will be the greater way
  120. in which we could help our students.
  121. Thank you for your time for your potential support of
  122. the community going at M.
  123. C. C.
  124. If you have any further questions, you can contact me
  125. at the email address listed here