Overall Rating Bronze - expired
Overall Score 35.82
Liaison Jim Carr
Submission Date Sept. 24, 2012
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University of Arkansas at Little Rock
ER-T2-2: Organic Garden

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.25 / 0.25 Nancy Landrum
Professor
Management Department
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Does the institution have an on-campus garden where students are able to gain organic farming and/or gardening experience?:
Yes

A brief description of the garden:
The UALR Sustainability Committee issued a small start-up grant to the Anthropology Department, the Anthropology Club, and the Non-profit Leadership organization. The garden grant is to create a sustainable organic garden focused on native Arkansas plants indigenous to and suitable for the local climate. Objectives of the garden are to promote local biodiversity, develop low maintenance, local gardening strategies, and to provide a laboratory for educational studies.

The website URL where information about the garden is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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