The Carolina Community Farm and Garden (CCFG), founded in 2007 and located at Green Quad, is the first community garden on campus.
The community is filled with sustainable features, which includes everything from a permaculture design and aquatic features to a rainwater collection, box gardens and a forest garden. Vermicomposting, or using worms to break down food, plays a large role at CCFG.
Students can volunteer at the garden and take home some of the food they grow. And CCFG has partnered with various organizations around campus to host events on the garden that allow them to grow and taste foods from around the world, while learning about food systems, the environment, anthropology, biology, art and business.
Since 2012, CCFG has provided free plants grown in its greenhouse. The plants change year to year, depending on gardeners’ preferences and seasonal conditions. Plants are seeded in the greenhouse and then transplanted outside so they have optimal space to grow.