Our Campus Garden
Who works at the Lake Forest College campus garden?
Project Manager Elizabeth Birnbaum ’08
847-735-6282 birnbaum@lakeforest.edu Office: Ravine Lodge 105
Garden Intern Ryan Vlaar ’14
We all interact with food in various ways: we have individual tastes, purchasing habits, and methods of food preparation. Most importantly, the majority of us are introduced to the basic process of community around our dinner tables.
It is Lake Forest College’s turn to contribute to the growing need for locally and responsibly grown food. Food has been called the great equalizer. We all must eat — and eating, as Wendell Berry famously said, is “an agricultural act.”
The Lake Forest College Garden was established in 2010. We have been listed in the top ten reasons to attend the college, have helped form the Slow Food Club, and have expanded student contact with agriculture.
Dig Days at the Campus Garden
Check out the garden blog
The Growin’ at Rowan blog is a chronology of photos and events at the campus garden:
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April 4, 2012 at 10:39am
The cover crop is still in, but soon it will be gone!
Photo by Sarah Brusig.
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With Thanksgiving just around the corner and Finals fast approaching, It should come as no surprise…November 18, 2011 at 10:50am
With Thanksgiving just around the corner and Finals fast approaching, It should come as no surprise to hear that the LFC Garden is now officially closed. All our summer crops are out of the ground and the beds have been filled with cover crop. The water was tuned off not two weeks ago, and the gate was closed and locked for the season. It’s a bittersweet time for us all right now, but we are deeply thankful for the experiences we had in the garden together this summer and with all those who came out to support us. Hope to see you all in the Spring!
