The Ohio State University
ER-T2-2: Organic Garden

The Wexner Center for the Arts has a culinary garden to support its eco-conscious cafe, Heirloom. Maximizing on Heirloom's mission to provide local, sustain ably grown food, an urban garden was built to reconnect the Ohio State community with their food system and environment. Direct preparation of seasonal produce from the garden is served to cafe patrons. Organic and permacultural gardening techniques, rainwater harvesting as well as cafe and garden composting are used. This highly visible campus garden is an educational work space accessible to Ohio State students for learning a about a closed-loop food ecosystem (from seed to harvest, preparation, and composting). In addition, public workshops and tours will educate the community on a range of garden and culinary topics. The Heirloom garden was designed and built by the Ohio State student organization, Ecological Engineering Society, with a Coca-Cola Sustainability grant through the Ohio State Office of Student Lfie.