91ɬÂþ Community Gardens
The 91ɬÂþ Community Gardens is a program focused on teaching and supporting small and sustainable agriculture and horticulture by organizing students, faculty, and community volunteers.
Come volunteer currently every Monday at 7 PM in the Community Garden and Wednesday at 7 PM in the HOPE Garden.
Community Garden
Located at 296 S 500 W, Cedar City, UT 84720. Established in 2020 by the 91ɬÂþ Sustainability Club with partnership with 91ɬÂþ Facilities. This space is where it all started. In this space we focus on education, experimentation, composting, plant breeding, seed collection, and creating a communal outdoor space.
Composting
We use the Berkeley Method of hot compost by taking fresh green (nitrogen rich) material from 91ɬÂþ Dining, pre-consumer food scraps, brown (carbon rich) material of leaves gathered from around campus by facilities that would otherwise go to the dump and manure taken from the 91ɬÂþ farm.
In FY23 we collected and composted 2.8 tons of food scraps from the kitchen. and in FY24 we composted 4.3 tons.
Compost is then used in the garden spaces. and all excess compost will soon be sold $1 a gallon.
We are now open for individual composting with us. Please follow instructions found in the garden.
Greens
- fresh vegetable/fruit scraps
- coffee grounds
- egg shells
- herbivore waste
- fresh plant clippings
Browns
- fall leaves
- untreated wood/paper/cardboard
- dead/dried plants
Not Compostable
- meat/dairy/oils
- produce stickers
- processed (glossy) wood/paper/cardboard
- compostable/biodegradable/bio plastics (needs industrial facility)
- dog/cat waste
- fabric
HOPE Garden
Starting in 2024 in partnership with the Community Engagement Center we have started a second garden space near the University Campus Services more focused on food production. As the part of the partnership all food produced in this Garden will be going to the 91ɬÂþ HOPE Pantry to Help Our People Eat (HOPE).