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Season for Nonviolence Goal: $18k

Microfarm

Harvesting a Healthy Campus

“To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves.”    -Gandhi

Recent Update

• Microfarm Accepting Donations January 13, 2012

  If you have new or used gardening equipment, we can provide them with a good home!  Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to the UR Micro-farm.  We could especially use the following items: Wheelbarrow Shovels Rakes Gardening gloves ...

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Mission
The mission of the Micro-farm is to advance UR’s sustainability efforts by providing local food for student consumption while educating the community of social justice issues surrounding food.   At the Micro-farm students and community members cultivate vegetables, fruits and herbs to be sold to UR Dining Services.   The UR Micro-farm creates positive student-community interactions, educates students through active learning and, above all, instills in UR students a conscientious mindset in food consumption and production.
 
Background
The UR Micro-farm is a nonprofit housed by the Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence and founded in 2009 by two KEY scholars, Annalise Kjolhede and Caitlin Smigelski with support from, Dining Services, Facilities and Operations and various academic departments.  The Micro-farm is located on the South Campus, near the Whipple Park Graduate Living Center which is serviced by the UR Blue Line Bus.  We broke ground in May of 2010 and planted our first crops the following month.  The garden is managed and operated by students with help from community members and various campus organizations.

 
Get involved!

During the season, we have weekly garden parties and all are welcome! Join our mailing list to get updates on Micro-farm activity! Contact garden managers Caitlyn Childress and Eric Semmel at ur.microfarm@gmail.com