October 23, 2012

Organic Garden Allows Students, Faculty, and Staff to Learn and Grow Together

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The Lafayette College Organic Garden covers two acres on Sullivan Trail just south of the Metzgar Fields Athletic Complex. One acre is a community garden for faculty, staff, and families to tend their own plots. The other section is where students work together spring through fall to grow healthy produce without the use of chemical pesticides or fertilizers.

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The Lafayette Organic Garden is located just south of Metzgar Fields on Sullivan Trail.
Cliff Reiter, professor of math, shows off some grapes he and his family have just harvested.
Jennifer Bell '11, garden manager and Metzgar Environmental Project coordinator, shows off some food grown at the Lafayette Organic Garden.
Chris Conn Tomik '03, associate director of alumni relations, gives a tomato to her daughter, Heidi, as her husband, Matt Tomik '03, checks out some plants in their plot.
Laurie Caslake, associate professor of biology, does some weeding.
Annie Mikol '13 shows off some produce for sale at the Lafayette Organic Garden stand in front of Gilbert's Cafe.
Annie Mikol '13, left, sells some of the organic garden's vegetables to Donna Schultheiss and her son, Matthew Schultheiss '15.
Marilyn Reiter, wife of Cliff Reiter, professor of math, checks out their grape plants.
Molly Sunderlin, PT Asst Director in Career Services and wife of Dave Sunderlin, Professor of Geology (not there) waters the family's tomato plants at the Lafayette Organic Garden.Ken White / Zovko PhotographicAugust 27, 2012
Jennifer Bell '11, garden manager and Metzgar Environmental Project coordinator, waters some plants.
John Frickman, husband of Laurie Caslake, associate professor of biology, does some weeding.
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2 Comments

  1. Micheal Smith says:
    May 2, 2013 at 7:50 am

    Going organic! Cheers to food that are good for the health. 🙂

  2. daniel tosh says:
    October 24, 2012 at 9:52 am

    i’ve had the beets from the garden and they are the sweetest ones around. Definitely a great resource in Lafayette.

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