NIU Communiversity Gardens

Cause Area

  • Community
  • Environment
  • Hunger

Location

Northern Illinois University300 Normal RoadDekalb, IL 60115 United States
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Mission Statement

Northern Illinois University's Communiversity Gardens Program is focused on building a unified community through gardening education about and the cultivation of organically sustainable food products. We strive to create environmental awareness and change both on campus and within our extended community.

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The Communiversity Gardens Program is taking a huge step towards engaging students, faculty, and the surrounding community in building unifying relationships through education and cultivation of sustainable food production.

  • A center for engaged community service ; departments and faculty can direct service-oriented individuals to participate in the maintenance, planning, and participation with the garden; a concerted effort for coordinating volunteers interested in either research or volunteerism could cement the gardens as a major role on campus for student and community engagement.
  • Donating to the students and community; the creation of an initiative to inspire greater nutritional health for the NIU population; in addition, a program to direct garden products to local food pantries.
  • General and multidisciplinary research; on urban community gardens as a whole; biological sciences research, nutrition research, community leadership and civic engagement research, undergraduate program research, and more.

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