Students Break Ground for St. John’s
University’s Latest Sustainability Project: a Student-Run Organic
Garden
July 27, 2009
Students at St. John’s University recently broke ground on the
Queens campus for a student community organic garden. The carefully
planned 34 x 54 ft. site is the latest Sustainability project at
St. John’s and represents another step in the University’s
commitment to reduce carbon emissions released into the
atmosphere.
Located behind Donovan Hall and beyond the left-field fence of the
softball field, the site now consists of five large, 7 X 24 ft.
planting beds separated by grass walkways. The entire garden will
be bordered by a 12 in.-wide planting bed and a 5 ft.-high wire
fence, which will support plant growth, discourage damage to
sprawling plants and add interest and shape to the patch. A
cedar-wood arbor with a picket fence gate will welcome all who
visit the new garden
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