Welcome to UGArden!
UGArden seeks to promote the social, environmental, and nutritional benefits of sustainable gardening through the creation of a student-run community garden. Such a unique outdoor learning experience encourages engagement with the natural world, fosters interdisciplinary pursuits at UGA, and offers a meaningful sense of place to a largely transitory student body. This student organization is dedicated to the management of a 1-acre garden plot. It began as a simple idea- to provide a place for students to learn to raise food and promote sustainable gardening. With this in mind, a group of dedicated students developed a plan and sought approval for a place to garden. After a year-long process, and a lot of hard work by many students and faculty advisor, David Berle, the garden found a home. The garden is located on South Milledge Avenue, on university land formerly dedicated to sheep farming. The first planting was in May of 2010. Professor Berle has led an enthusiastic group of UGarden members and student volunteers to establish a garden that now includes a tilapia aquaponics demonstration, permanent fruits plantings, bee hives, and a woodland mushroom demonstration area. In the summer of 2011, the UGArden site became home to a wood reclamation program. The scope of this project is collecting lumber in good condition from university renovation projects. It will be reused for local community garden construction projects in cooperation with the Athens Land Trust.
Volunteer workdays during the Spring 2012 semester are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Fridays 3-5pm
Wednesdays 8:30-10:30am
Sundays 2-4pm
A special thank you to the following UGA Departments for their support in this project:
- College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
- Physical Plant- Grounds Department
- Horticulture Department
- University Architects Office
- Entomology (Bee Lab)
- Bioconversion Center
