Show how does your garden grow Ani Arakelian in Editor-in-Chief On Tuesday Mar 2 University of Utah Biology Professor Fred Montague PhD came to Salt Lake Community College as the kick off to Salt Lake Community Colleges College's upcoming ming community garden Montague spoke on the global imperative for the local garden The garden is set to open by the end of March It will be located at the Taylorsville Redwood Campus on the east side of the Construction Trades Building There is an herb garden that is already located there It will be expanded to fit the community garden After that space is filled they will look at expanding either at Taylorsville Redwood Campus or to other campuses The idea for a community garden at came from two teamed up sources Adam Dastrup Geo Department Coordinator and chair of the Sustainability Committee had the idea of a community garden Jason Thornton founder of Seeds of Hope which provides tomato seedlings to other community gardens and organizations found many people pe asking about a community garden at I approached Adam when I found out there was a Sustainability Committee on campus and it just kind of took off from there says Thornton After Dastrup became the chair or the Sustainability Committee he started working with the Thayne Center and Health and Wellness I stared thinking of the community garden as a way to branching out to serves branching out to live well Obviously with Sustainability And I wanted to try to find a way to build better community on campus says Dastrup Because of size limitations only departments and clubs at will be able to get a space in the garden There will be a small fee and the department or club will be in charge of weeding and watering their plot They can use whatever they grow how they would like but will be asked to donate to community food programs has teamed up with Wasatch Community Gardens They will be helping by providing seed along with Seeds of Hope They will be coming to towards the end of March to teach and help departments and clubs how to get their gardens going There is also a plan to the have potlucks with Slow Food Utah The hope is that one day we weare weare weare are going to have a very large garden and that we will plant a arow arow arow row which that row of crops will all be donated to a food shelf says Thornton If your department or club is interested in becoming part of the community garden contact Adam Dastrup at or Jason Thornton at |