Green Corner
Farm and Garden Club is run by upper Meg Bolan, lower Sarah Ryu and senior Nate Bogardus. It’s a club designed to get students to reconnect with the outdoors again and to cultivate nature’s beauty with the land we have on campus. It’s a very low commitment club, with meetings not take place every week, but we have big plans this year.
An upcoming event is Green Apple Day on Sunday, Nov. 6, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Here, various clubs involved in Sustainability will be running activities on and off campus. Farm and Garden Club will be helping out by either winterizing the community garden, or by constructing a small hoop house to experiment with growing projects through the winter and early spring. By winterizing the garden, we’ll prepare it for the upcoming snow, and “save” the garden for when we can begin planting.
The hoop garden can be used to grow herbs or microgreens for dining hall, as well as provide samples for biology classes. We will be meeting this Thursday, Oct. 27 during department meetings. Come join us on the left side of Wetherell to give your opinion of what you would like to see! Anyone interested is welcome to join (and bring friends—the more the merrier!).
As the year progresses, we plan on becoming more involved with the community garden. The maintenance staff have enough to handle, so by making weekly contributions to the effort when spring rolls around can make a huge difference to the community as well as the staff's lives. We make the meetings times flexible to work with club members, and we work closely with Mr. Janicki. It’s also a great way to meet new people and get to know them while trying something new. The satisfaction of doing good for the community can make your day, and Farm and Garden Club is a simple, easy, stress-free way to achieve that success.
In the words of senior Connie Cai, “I’m really just looking forward to putting Farm and Garden Club on my college apps. It shows good character.” Personally, we couldn’t agree more. All in all the club is an effortless, gratifying way to get involved with the Exeter community and our local resources, take a deep breathe of fresh air, step away from the books and laptops and get some work done by joining Farm and Garden Club. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to Meg or Sarah (our emails are mebolan@exeter.edu and sryu@exeter.edu)!