| Grass Roots Garden |
Campus initiative to grow organic produce for home consumption.
Ye’ela Gundar and Karin Fitoussi, first-year students of Landscape Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, led an enthusiastic group to clear an overgrown area among the dorms on campus and plant their first salad vegetables and fruit trees: olive, pomegranate, mulberry and a grape vine. “Growing our own food near our home is a proven method to decrease our ecological footprint, balancing pollution with healthy food - free of toxic fertilizers and pesticides,” they say.
The Student Community Garden Club is a new green initiative of the Unit for Social and Cultural Affairs, Dean of Students Office. Aryeh Keshet, who runs the unit, says that he hopes that allocating these green spaces will enable more students to eat better, cheaper, and healthier produce. “Facing climate change, food and water shortages, fossil-fuel crisis, as well as the growing number of endangered species, we must accept responsibility for building a better and more sustainable world,” he says. |
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