Just this past week, the Center for the Environment hired three students to manage the Garden. Morgan Lindsay '09, former Summer Garden Intern, will take the position as the Garden Project Coordinator. Layton Guenther '09 and Anna Wei '09 have both been hired as the Garden Co-Managers. We also held our first Garden Society meeting this past Friday and we are happy to say there were many interested students in attendance. As Morgan, Sarah, Guenther, and Anna explained the history and mission of the Garden, we also discussed upcoming important dates, possible field trips, and how students can get involved in this new and wonderful project!
CROP/GARDEN UPDATES:
Anna and Guenther have taken the water responsibilities from Morgan and Sarah. The pumpkins, squash, and potatoes are ready for harvesting! Aside from the few occasional grubs and bugs, the crops are doing well.
Important Upcoming Dates:
Friday September 21st
Next Garden Society Meeting
4pm @ Wilder ALL WELCOME!
Sunday September 23rd
HARVEST EXTRVAGANZA!!!
1pm (note change!) @ the Garden (on top of Prospect hill)
We will be harvesting our pumpkins, squash, and potatoes for our Local Gracious Dinner in all the dining halls. Around 3pmish, we will hold a Harvest Parade through campus and deliver our produce to the dining halls! Please come when you can!
Post-Harvest Extravaganza...
Pumpkin Pie Making!! In Dickinson House for the Garden Tea for Faculty&Staff the next day. Contact grant20a for more info.
Tuesday September 25th
Garden Tea with Garden Project Team and Faculty & Staff
4pm @ Cassani Lounge in Shattuck Hall
Wednesday September 26th
ANNA LAPPE!!!
7pm @ Hooker Aud.
More Info: Anna Lappe Talk
Thursday September 27th
LOCAL GRACIOUS DINNER
5-7pm @ all the MHC Dining Halls
Friday September 28th
Dance,Music,Celebration Garden Party (TBD)
Hey! My name’s Layton Guenther, class of 2009, and I’m a Critical Social Thought major from a small suburb outside of New York City (Pelham, NY). My involvement with the MHC Student Garden stems from my relatively new passion for examining the politics of food production, both in certain historically agriculture-centered communities across the globe and in our own backyards here in the Pioneer Valley. Last summer I worked on a soil remediation project in New Orleans, LA, where I had my first taste (literally) of organic food growing in a small community garden, and spent my last few weeks of August working at Red Fire Farm over in Granby, MA. Having spent the whole summer working with those wonderful folks this past summer of ’07, I came back to MHC craving the rewarding, if not dirty, work of making food grow. Besides farming, I’d have to say that making music, riding my bike and cooking delicious food are some things that make my little heart skip a beet. (Get it?)
Anna Wei
As an Environmental Studies major concentrating in Sustainable Food Systems, Anna Wei first became interested in sustainable agriculture when she attended a summer program at in ecovillage in Brazil learning about permaculture. It was there that she began to realize the importance of food and its relation to everything: culture, health, politics, economics, and the environment. This past summer, she started her first growing season as an intern at a 10-acre CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) farm in Waltham, Ma (Waltham Fields Community Farm). She wants to continue with small-scale, organic farming in hopes to build stronger, healthy, and local communities that are connected with their food and land. Anna has also developed a recent fascination with the ecological relationships of insects in agriculture. When she is not at the Garden, you can find her exploring the outdoors, playing the guitar, or eating yummy food.
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