Wayne State University is developing a new community garden, St. Andrews Allotment Garden, behind St. Andrews Church on Anthony Wayne Drive. There will be 16 raised beds of 32 square feet each. Three university student groups will plant, maintain and harvest four beds apiece; the university will take care of four for research purposes.
Garden prep activities such as cutting wood,
oiling and drilling holes will start March 23 at the
Community Arts Woodshop. Garden building will start April 18.
The St. Andrews Allotment Garden differs from the university's
Warrior Demonstration Garden in that the university is merely helping to facilitate it, and is leaving everything else up to students. The existing Warrior Garden is tended by the university, and the bulk of food grown is destined for donations to the
Capuchin Soup Kitchen.
In other WSU food access news, the Wayne State
Wednesday Farmers Market will return this year -- weekly, after a successful pilot year in 2008. It is located on Cass Ave, in front of Prentis Hall, and will start up June 3 and run through Oct. 28. "There was a great deal of interest and also a great deal of demand," says Kami Pothukuchi, a WSU associate professor involved in both initiatives.
The garden and the farmers market are programs of
SEED Wayne, a program of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences dedicated to building sustainable food systems on WSU's campus and in the greater Detroit community.
Source: Kami Pothukuchi, SEED Wayne
Writer: Kelli B. Kavanaugh
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