On a small lot where an old house once stood
near Salt Lake Community’s South City Campus, 20 boxes filled with dirt will
soon yield fresh vegetables for low-income students using the campus’s Bruin
Food Pantry.
Volunteers work on community garden at South City Campus
SLCC bought the old house along 1700 South, demolished it
and paved the way for the College’s third plot for a community garden – the
other two are near the Taylorsville and Jordan campuses. At the South City
site, Grainger Industrial Supply donated money toward the project, and staffers
at nearby Whittier Elementary School and South City Campus Daycare pitched in
some sweat equity.
The water lines and boxes before installation
The idea for a community garden at South City came from SLCC
Community Partnerships coordinator Sean Crossland and the College’s Disability
Resource Center assistant director, Steven Lewis, who helped start the other
two gardens. The boxes at South City were quickly spoken for, and Lewis said the plan now is
to offer up the garden’s “bounty,” when fully ripe, twice a week at the Food
Pantry.
Steven Lewis
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