The Edible Peace Patch Garden

06/19/2023

Won't stop until every community has a local food system.

Founder Kip Curtis said there are six farmers currently engaged and working the land at the Marion Microfarm Project.

09/27/2021

If you plan on volunteering with us please attend our training! Details below 🌿🌈🌻

04/26/2021

Eminent environmental historians from the Ohio State University Department of History share how environmental history informs our shared future in a world co...

01/24/2021

Took a wander past the old garden site this week. Wow! The native plants have all matured. The Papaya rage on and skyward. The Peace is in the Patch, it will always be! ✌

05/30/2020

Professor Kip Curtis stands at the Mansfield Microfarm Curtis named faculty fellow in the Office of Outreach and Engagement Kip Curtis, associate professor of Environmental History/Mansfield campus, has joined the Office of Outreach and Engagement as a faculty fellow. In this role, he will continue....

02/11/2020

The state has never cared about educating these children. But we did. Breaks my heart to read this.

The St. Petersburg school has the only F rating in the county. The Pinellas County School District could lose control of the school.

12/14/2019

Where it all began: Winter Term & Spring 2009.

The Edible Peace Patch Garden is a cooperative effort between Eckerd College Environmental Studies and Lakewood Elementary School to start an organic garden at the…

11/09/2019

Peace Patch north. Making hay.

10/02/2019

The farm is the fifth to have opened in the city's fourth ward, an area considered to be a food desert.

07/26/2019

“This has been wildly successful beyond what I could have ever imagined, and that’s a tribute to Mansfield,” said Curtis. “There is a social capital already present in Mansfield that had already thought about the relationship between social and agricultural issues. That meant I was able to hit the ground running as soon as I got here.”

The Ohio State University at Mansfield Microfarm has been hard at work over the past three months.

07/10/2019

Let me tell you...

Micro farming is small-scale, high-yield, sustainably-minded farming, generally conducted by hand in urban or suburban areas.

07/03/2019