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Planting the seeds of sustainability on GTC's Barton Campus

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Published on Wednesday, November 19, 2014

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A collaboration of Greenville Tech Charter High School and GTC students and faculty have launched a community garden.
 

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A collaboration of Greenville Tech Charter High School and GTC students and faculty have launched a community garden.

 

The Barton Community Garden is a thriving green space producing healthy vegetables including lacy lettuce, arugula, parsley, broccoli, cauliflower, onions, and carrots for Greenville Tech. 

The garden’s success is a result of productive collaboration between Greenville Tech. Charter High School’s Garden Club, Greenville Forward Gardening for Good, and various departments at Greenville Technical College (GTC). For example, a new sign created by GTCHS Garden Club members and GTC First Year Experience students, and GTC English Professor Kelly Mieszek donated worms to assist with composting. 

The GTCHS Garden Club will help the GTC Biology department with three adjacent gardens as well as potentially partnering with the GTC Library for a bat-house building event.

The garden’s initiative is to achieve and inspire "Permaculture and Urban Farming," also known as sustainable agriculture, in the Greenville community in partnership with GTC’s Sustainable Agriculture project at the northwest campus.

 

 

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