MILLER HERB and FOOD GARDEN | |
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How would you like to step out of your office or health care facility into the sunshine to find a food forest and herb garden awaiting you? Together with Dr. Christina Pozo-Kaderman, medical students, and dieticians, the Facilities and Operations Department and the Office of Sustainability have helped create an oasis of healing and support for the Cancer Support Services 'mission. Read the full article. Master Planning Document - MHFG Steering Committee |
For more information, contact Terri Hood
VOLUNTEERING HOURS for UM STAFF, FACULTY, and STUDENTS |
The Sustainability Garden in the Arboretum will have a weekly maintenance hour: |
For Staff and Faculty: Get 100 points on your Well Canes card for 1 hour of volunteering (2 hours - 200 points max). Reserve your spot now, first come first served (limited number of volunteers due to Covid restrictions), contact greenu@miami.edu |
The CommUnity Garden Club will have gardening hours at the Hecht Garden every Saturday from 10 am to 1pm. Contact Jorge Jaime Rivera for more information. |
COMPOST DROP OFF HOURS Composting is limited to UV Residents awarded an "ECO Sponsored" bucket. Awardees can drop off their bucket ONLY when a Compost coordinator is on site. Please, follow the INSTRUCTIONS on your bucket. For approved buckets, here are the composting drop off hours: |
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Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
11 am - 12 pm Caroline Tran |
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4-5 pm Munir Mohamed |
3 pm - 5 pm Sing Peng |
3.30 - 5.30 pm Anjou Sharma |
2 pm - 3 pm Karna Nagalla |
IF NOBODY IS THERE, PLEASE CALL 786-394-0911 FOR HELP If you need information, please contact greenu@miami.edu |
Form for UV residents.
Compost manager training video . For any questions, please contact greenu@miami.edu | ||||
For sustainable food and plant-based diet on campus, visit miami.edu/plantbased |
THE ARBORETUM SUSTAINABILITY GARDEN | ||
HISTORY | ||
The Gifford Arboretum Sustainability Garden is located on the University of Miami Coral Gables campus. Up until summer of 2018, it was a “temporary” dumping ground for tree trimmings etc. from around campus. For almost 5 years before this, U Miami faculty and students had been campaigning for a dedicated gardening spaces for organizations and classes. During the summer of 2018 the site was cleared and leveled. Garden creation began in August 2018 and has been growing and beautifying since then. | ||
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MISSION | ||
Overall Garden structure and vision We have delineated two zones to date, the rock-edged perennial/food forest beds (“Sustainable Suburbia”) and the annuals-focused geometric trial beds. Groups and classes using these are outlined below. Our focuses and goals are multifold:
2020 Development of the Arboretum Sustainability garden continues on multiple fronts. In the geometric trial beds, two new projects this school year are the Square Foot Bed and the Slow Food Ark of Taste Bed. Square foot gardening demonstrates how to grow high diversity and continuing harvest edibles in limited space; the Ark of Taste plantings focus on culturally significant historical food varieties at risk of being lost. For the Alternate Turf project, after completion of the proof-of-concept section and plant selection trials, deployment across the entire walking surface has commenced. The native plants used need less water, trimming and fertilizer than grass; additionally they provide multiple wildlife benefits. In the Sustainable Suburbia perennial section, new plantings include an asparagus bed and a red/purple/yellow flowers nectar bed of pagoda flower/ruellia/native goldenrod. Lastly, in the wall vine planters a grape arbor was built using Arboretum bamboo; two varieties of muscadine grapes are climbing the arbor and already fruiting. |
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Activities and Classes: |
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Courses using the garden |
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Students and faculty came together at UM’s annual Food Day to highlight the need for sustainable, locally-sourced food. With the world’s population rising and climate change putting pressure on worldwide food security, we must take immediate action! But how can we eat fresh and sustainably in the 305? Does growing your own food seem too good to be true? UM’s Food Garden in the arboretum is available to everyone and is a fantastic way to get involved on campus. Take the first step toward a plant-based diet, not only for your health, but for the health of the planet. Please contact greenu@miami.edu for more information! Read this News@theU article: Gardening for greater awareness |
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We (faculty and students) are particularly excited about our mission to recycle/upcycle materials normally deemed “difficult”. We have a major focus on recycling materials that would normally be tossed, in our case to build naturally fertile soils that not only reduce external inputs (e.g. ‘mined’ soils & artificial fertilizers), but also support a diverse and healthy soil community. Some of our soil-building materials are:
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Coffee Grounds 4 Plants helps the Sustainable Food Garden in the Gifford Arboretum
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The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us the importance of preserving biodiversity. You can start by creating pollinator havens for butterflies in your own backyard. Professor Terri Hood and Environmental Services Director Frances Kaniewski are both passionate about preserving biodiversity through butterflies, and will provide you with tips on how to build your own garden! Join Build Your Own Butterfly Garden on Friday, July 10 from 8:30-9:30 a.m. Recording available here |
OTHER GARDENS |
RSMAS |
If you are studying or working on the RSMAS campus, and you would like to be involved in the making of the new Green Committee Garden, contact Kayla Besong at kayla.besong@rsmas.miami.edu |
BUTTERFLY GARDENS at Miller |
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Garden club on the Coral Gables campus Contact greenu@miami.edu for more information |
Visit this amazing Real Food map project from Dr. Shouraseni's GIS class, Derek Vildosola
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For more Community Gardens in South East Florida, visit local community garden