Status: °ä°¿²Ñ±Ê³¢·¡°Õ·¡¶ÙÌýMay 2010 - November 2010
Apartment Gardens gives individuals on the downtown ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ campus an opportunity to have a small home garden, right in their window or on their balcony. The service will provide people with leafy vegetable seedlings in small pots using compost and soil, distributed weekly at the ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ Farmers’ Market.
This project allows ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ community members to learn basic gardening techniques without the need for a backyard or time-consuming acquisition of materials and preparation of seedlings.Ìý It presents people with the opportunity to simultaneously reduce their carbon footprint and provide them with food.Ìý Come out to pick some plants up, take care of them, harvest and then return the pots with leftover plant matter and soil for recycling.
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For further information conerning this project, or to get in touch with its members, please contact the krista.houser [at] mcgill.ca (SPF Administration Team).