An initiative to grow food, plants, and promote localized sustainability on UDC's Van Ness campus. A project of CAUSES.
Find us on campus: http://goo.gl/maps/EpOjw The UDC Garden Club got its start in 2010, when a group of students from the Caribbean Students Association approached the Director of the Office of International Programs and Exchanges, Denis Antoine, about restoring a neglected rose garden on the plaza of UDC's Van Ness Campus. The students were introduced to UDC staff working in the Agricultural Exper
08/22/2022
Welcome back, UDC students, staff and community! The UDC Garden Club has been busy this summer growing peppers, tomatoes, okra and more. Join us any Saturday morning, 9-12 at the Van Ness campus, or write udcgardenclub2@gmail for info. on garden activities at Van Ness, Bertie Backus, PR Harris and E Capital, or Firebird Farm. See you at the garden!
10/19/2019
Introducing Rocco, our new Fall garden mascot!
10/18/2019
Our fabulous environmental study student volunteers helped harvest chard, okra, tomatoes, peppers, arugula, etc. for the UDC food pantry yesterday.
10/18/2019
Fresh from the garden!
10/03/2019
We're delighted to deliver about 6 lbs of okra, chard, peppers (sweet &. hot), & cucumber to the UDC food pantry! We'll do this regularly on Thursdays.
09/28/2019
And the cucumbers just keep coming!
09/23/2019
Our sweet potatoes are Blooming!!
09/15/2019
Harvesting Summer crops, planting Fall crops, and preparing compost for next Spring. Just another Saturday in the garden!
09/08/2019
What a great day at Kids Day at the Garden! Thanks to UDC's Office of Military & Veteran Student Services for partnering with the Garden Club to make it a success!
Here's Julia, explaining how it all works.... Stay tuned for more...
08/28/2019
Check out this awesome piece about community gardens, including quotes from Phronie Jackson (our faculty advisor) and Coy McKinney, who founded the UDC Garden Club!
The Plot Thickens The green thumbs who transformed a neglected patch of D.C. dirt into a sunflower-smattered community garden weren’t about to stand down against the U.S. military. “They were thinking of moving Marine barracks over here,” says Hal Seitz. Better known as “Hal the Gardener,” he’s tended a p...
08/22/2019
Had great fun talking with UDC students about our club at the student fair on Orientation day. Big thanks to CAUSES for helping!
08/17/2019
Brave gardeners who braved the heat! We harvested a ton of okra, beets, green beans, sun gold tomatoes, cucumber & chard. We enjoyed seeing a butterflies, too: a monarch & American painted lady