Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 82.81
Liaison Aaron Durnbaugh
Submission Date April 12, 2023

STARS v2.2

Loyola University Chicago
IN-7: Community Garden

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.50 / 0.50 Aaron Durnbaugh
Director of Sustainability
Office of Sustainability
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A brief description of the institution’s community garden:
Loyola owns and provides a property on the Lake Shore Campus to a local nonprofit, Peterson Garden Project, for an allotment-style garden called "Vedgewater". This garden has ~80 gardeners and some plots are dedicated to produce donation through a local food pantry named Care for Real.

Additionally our students have supported Peterson Garden Project through workdays.

Website URL where information about the community garden is available:
Estimated number of individuals that use the institution’s community garden annually:
80

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