Community-Garden

This is written for the archive of DKU by Xing Shi Cai. The Garden in Jan 2025 As the faculty adviser for Plant Futures since 2023, I’ve had the privilege of working with students passionate about plant-based living and environmental sustainability. In spring 2024, while brainstorming new initiatives for our club, several students with gardening experience proposed an exciting idea: creating a community garden. We discovered there had already been a garden between the IB and WDR buildings, adjacent to the campus’s southern boundary. At the time, only a handful of people were utilizing this space, leaving much of it untended. With optimism and perhaps a touch of naivety, I envisioned a simple approach to starting our community garden: create a grid system using Excel, where each cell represented one square meter of land, and let community members claim their plots. ...