Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 50.16
Liaison Dr. Jill Wicknick
Submission Date Jan. 7, 2023

STARS v2.2

University of Montevallo
IN-7: Community Garden

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.50 / 0.50 Susan Caplow
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Behavioral and Social Sciences
"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

A brief description of the institution’s community garden:
The UM Organic Community Garden offers plots for rental and volunteer opportunities in the donation garden, where all produce is donated to Shelby Emergency Assistance. The Garden also hosts university classes, K-12 field trips, and other community groups looking to learn more about gardening and get their hands dirty.

Website URL where information about the community garden is available:

Optional Fields

Estimated number of individuals that use the institution’s community garden annually:
500

Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Note - the garden data did not include people coming for U-Pick, or people who have rented plots, nor people who come on their own, so we rounded up to 500 as a conservative estimate.

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