Community garden allows students to dig deep

Coastal Carolina University now has a community garden and wants the campus community to come out and help it grow.

Located at the Environmental Health and Safety House (accessible through trails behind Ronald R. Ingle and Ronald G. Eaglin Halls), the community garden allows students and faculty to attend voluntary workshops and learn the fundamentals of gardening, including weeding, composting and fertilizing. Every Wednesday at 3 p.m., all are invited to get their hands dirty.

“It’s a lot of hard work, but it’s fun,” said Tiffani Cosson, who, along with Dea Kamberaj, cultivated the project.
The students are both Jackson Scholars, and the project is funded by the Jackson Center for Ethics and Values. The project adviser is Jennifer Sellers, CCU’s sustainability coordinator.

“This project brings the Campus and Community Sustainability Initiative into a different branch,” said Sellers. “Gardening is advanced, but the benefits to our health and the environment are tremendous.”

Ideally, the goal is to start an on-campus Farmer’s Market in the future where produce grown in the garden will be sold and proceeds will be donated to a local charity. Club members are looking into the legalities of an on-campus business, and are hopeful this idea will eventually come to fruition.

For more information, find the Coastal Carolina University Community Garden on Facebook, or email garden@g.coastal.edu.