Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 61.90
Liaison Megan Butler
Submission Date July 19, 2011
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Macalester College
IN-4: Innovation 4

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.00 / 1.00 Suzanne Savanick Hansen
Sustainability Manager
Macalester Sustainbility Office
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A brief description of the innovative policy, practice, program, or outcome:
Urban Chickens The Macalester Urban Land and Community Health (MULCH) Garden, is a student organization that runs the student organic garden. In the Spring of 2011, and MULCH students sought to further its urban farm practices by developing a successful proposal to bring urban chickens to campus. hosting chickens next to the garden. Macalester now has six chickens in a coup next to the organic garden. These hens lay every other day, and are used to show how certain kinds of livestock can be incorporated into urban living.

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