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    Grant jumpstarts community garden on Oconee Campus

    October 4, 2018
    A $1,000 Leveraging Educational Assistance Partnership (LEAP) grant helped start a community garden that UNG faculty, staff and students have embraced. The garden is helping UNG's Oconee Campus food pantry and other local food banks.

    Article By: Clark Leonard

    Dr. Gary Adcox was simply hoping to use a community garden to engage students in stocking an on-campus food pantry with fresh foods while learning about sustainable food production and nutrition when he applied for a $1,000 UNG Liberal Education and America's Promise (LEAP) Initiative grant earlier this year. The way University of North Georgia (UNG) students, faculty and staff have responded to the project has blown him away.

    Adcox, director of campus success and strategic initiatives on UNG's Oconee Campus, said the garden is on track to provide more than enough produce for "Nigel's Nest," a pantry serving the university community that opened in March on the Oconee Campus. Now Adcox, and the group of volunteers that tend the garden, are exploring additional ways to share their work with the community. Those ways include sharing the fresh produce with local assisted living communities as well as making contributions to other food banks in Oconee, Athens-Clarke County and surrounding areas.

    As interest in the community garden has grown, so have plans for its expansion. Located behind the Facilities and Public Safety Building, plans are already underway to use the garden for more than growing food. For example, Adcox sees great opportunities for math and biology classes to use it for a variety of hands-on learning experiences and labs.

    Adcox said UNG Facilities personnel have provided great expertise and help with the garden, which produced sweet corn, okra, peas, and squash during its inaugural season.

    The LEAP Initiative seeks to promote High-Impact Educational Practices and identify professors and departments already implementing these practices at UNG.

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    Cadets grateful for experience at Capitol

    Cadets grateful for experience at Capitol

    UNG cadets were thankful for the chance to take part in a review by Gov. Brian Kemp on March 7 in Atlanta in honor of UNG's 150th anniversary.
    GPB highlights Hometown Harvest, UNG Food Pantry

    GPB highlights Hometown Harvest, UNG Food Pantry

    "A Fork in the Road" on Georgia Public Broadcasting highlighted UNG's Hometown Harvest collaboration with Lumpkin County Schools and the UNG Food Pantry.
    Chand publishes paper on Nepal

    Chand publishes paper on Nepal

    UNG assistant professor Dr. Bibek Chand published a discussion paper through the Institute of South Asian Studies.
    Cronan gains research opportunity in Canada

    Cronan gains research opportunity in Canada

    UNG junior Anna Cronan has been selected for the summer 2023 Fulbright-MITACS Globalink Program, where she will conduct cover crop research.

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