“Sometimes it’s hard to imagine that the fruits and vegetables you eat don’t start out at the supermarket. Instead, they begin with a seed. You could take an entire college course on how a seed turns into what ends up on your dinner plate. But, this course is being taught to an unusually young audience […]
The Department of Public Worms has been partnering with UCSB Sustainability and the AS Food Bank to work towards combating food insecurity on campus. We’re the worker bees of the project – tending the gardens and farm space from seed to fruit, and of course we’re paying close attention to our soil amendments! UCSB
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Check out our brief interview on KCSB FM radio at UCSB! KCSB has been doing highlight pieces about life in Isla Vista, and they just featured a special about feeding Isla Vista. Where do residents source their food? Is food security an issue in this small community? Listen Here: Inside Isla Vista: Feeding Isla
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“The Edible Campus Program and the Department of Public Worms have begun turning large and unused concrete spaces into vertical, sustainable farms to combat hunger. In the battle against campus-wide food insecurity, students are creating urban orchards, vertical gardens and a campus farm to increase food production on even the campus’s most concrete-covered areas. Nearly
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