Pomona College
ER-T2-2: Organic Garden

Pomona's Organic Farm promotes sustainable food production and a greater understanding of food and agriculture through both academic and co-curricular spaces. The community garden space focuses on small-scale plots, perennial tree fruit production, and sustainable/land-integrated agriculture. The academic space emphasizes experimentation and larger-scale crop production for teaching and learning (though still small, biodynamic, Permaculture-based practice). Both spaces practice 100% organic agriculture methods. The mission of the Farm is twofold: first, to provide the students, faculty, staff and community members of Claremont with a means for education exploration in the fields of Permaculture, organic farming, alternative architecture and sustainability, and second, to provide a working model of ecologically-based crop production. The Farm hosts events yearround and is also home to chickens, bees, a solar oven, and other tools for sustainable living.