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The University Community Vegetable Garden is an initiative led by a group of Towson Honors
College students. The garden will encompass approximately 1,000 square feet and will provide
both a site for vegetable cultivation as well as community service opportunities and health and
wellness education programs. Garden volunteers will employ sustainable, low-impact, intensive
cultivation methods, including aggressive planting schedules, season extension (where possible),
inter-cropping, succession cropping, mulching, composting, and integrated pest management
(IPM) as described by Maryland Extension Services. The produce from the entirely student run
garden will be donated to the Assistance Center of Towson Churches’ weekly dinner for
homeless and needy families in the Towson area.
University of Illinois – Urbana
Green HoHo
An award of $350 was granted to University of Illinois Honors Program in Urbana, Illinois, for
the project “Green HoHo”
The Green HoHo project invites University of Illinois Honors Program students to make a
difference by adding a garden to complement the transformation of their 1909 Honors House into
a more sustainable structure. In addition to installing a garden that can be used for outreach to the
community, students will participate in an innovative, multi-day, hands-on learning experience
related to the greening of Honors House.
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