Thursday, May 28, 2015

Pickin' Strawberries

This week I learned that the University has a sustainable garden project here on campus. Since all the students are gone, there are a ton of STRAWBERRIES just waiting to be picked.


Most of the produce from the gardens goes to campus dinning for use in the Commons, or to homeless shelters. 


The garden coordinator asked for employees to come pick strawberries. Pick a container for a homeless shelter and pick another to keep for yourself! At first I was thinking of just doing 2- and keeping one for us. But when we got there we saw tons of strawberries just rotting off the vine. We picked off all the bad strawberries so the new ones would get more nourishment. And then tried to pick only the ripest ones. Still- there were so many!


It was pretty hot so we didn't hang around for too long. But I learned that you can also rent garden plots for a season and I am definitely interested in that!

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