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The UA Little Rock Campus Garden is dedicated to providing fresh food to UA Little Rock students, staff and faculty while teaching our community the importance of sustainable urban farming. From a vacant lot to a thriving small urban farm with a big vision, we are a place for education, research & outreach about food production & sustainable living.

06/24/2024

📣 Farm Stand this week 🧑‍🌾 supporting students in urban agriculture!!

Grab some fresh, local produce at our Campus Garden Summer farm stand this Friday, June 28, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. We have a wide selection of produce available including tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, onions, potatoes, squash, cabbage, eggplant, and more! 🥬 🍅 🥒 🌶️

This event will be hosted by students in the Principles of Sustainable Agriculture course, which aims to broaden understanding of how food is grown, marketed, and distributed, particularly at the local level.

Please come out and show your support!!

04/17/2024

Miss our plant sale & also love 🌎 Earth Day?! You can find us at the Earth Day celebration Thurs., April 18! We saved a limited supply of plants to sell plus we’ll have early season greens and fresh cut herbs 🪴 available from 10A-2P in the courtyard (between & ). This event is sponsored by our partners with the UA Little Rock Sustainability Committee. Come see us! 🧑‍🌾

04/12/2024

It’s time for our Annual Spring Plant Sale 🌱 Friday, April 12, 2024, from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.! We have our favorites, new varieties of tomatoes and peppers, & super hot peppers 🔥 this year. Come see us! 🍅🌶️🪴

11/15/2023

Come out to our end-of-season farm stand Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023!

Grab some of our 🍠sweet potatoes, fresh greens, peppers, ripe & green tomatoes 🍅 and herbs for your holiday gathering! Local craft foods will also be available for independent purchase.

All proceeds support our ongoing efforts to help provide healthy, sustainably grown local food to our campus and community. Remaining produce will be distributed through our various food pantry partnerships.

11/09/2023

Join us in congratulating these schools for their outstanding work in teaching the next generation how to connect to their food for better health, better communities and a better future! 👏👏

11/02/2023

Do you know what you need to do to have a great garden (or raised beds), or are you thinking about growing vegetables next season? Do you prefer to use sustainable methods to build a thriving and healthy soil environment? ♻️

Now is the best time of year to prepare but there’s so much information out there that it can be difficult to know where to start. 🤔 We have answers in our last workshop this season!

Whether you’re method is sod busting, no-till, or raised bed gardening, know that it’s possible to build/rebuild healthy soil on a budget by using methods available to almost everyone.

There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to optimizing your gardening outputs. We’re sharing our years of insights, knowledge, and tips in our Principles and Practices to Build Soil Health workshop in our Urban Ag series of workshops on Sat., Nov. 4, 2023, 12P-3P. Register by midnight Nov. 3 at 👇

http://tiny.cc/j3ddvz

Dr. Stephen Grace, founding director, will share his passion for sustainable urban and small-scale agriculture to help you grow healthy and productive crops.

Parking is free, and class will be taught inside and in the Campus Garden for hands-on experience. Course handouts, free materials and goodies included!

This workshop is made possible through the generous support of the Pulaski County Conservation District and our partners at UA Little Rock Extended Education.

10/24/2023

Come out to the annual Sustainability Day 🌱 event Thurs., Oct. 26, 2023, and pickup a variety of produce and goods from the Garden! 🍠 Sweet potatoes, several varieties of peppers, tomatoes and more will be available to purchase.

Proceeds from our farm stands support our ongoing growing operation where we produce everything from seed to harvest, relying on our volunteers & leaders to make the dream work.

We’re asked frequently “what happens to the produce you grow?” 🤔 We feed our volunteers, we donate produce and plants to our partners taking healthy food to underserved communities and food pantries, and we offer our harvest bounty for sale to raise funds to do it all again next season! ♻️ We also recycle any food waste as compost for it to continue the cycle of providing nutrients for next season’s crops 🧑‍🌾

Come support our year-round efforts in growing a thriving local food movement driven by the need to provide healthy, nutritious food for ALL.

The Campus Garden is a multi-disciplinary teaching and research site dedicated to practices of and where we’re helping resources for today and future generations. Learn to grow with us!

Sign up to volunteer with us this week 🔗 tiny.cc/5rrcvz or visit our website at ualr.edu/garden

10/19/2023

This time of year is a great time to be in your garden and an excellent time to replenished your soil after the growing season. We can help with that!
Catch our next workshop Sat., Nov 4, 2023

Link in comment 👇

10/04/2023

It’s the season to preserve the harvest. We’re excited to offer our second in a series of self sustainability workshops in partnership with the Pulaski Co. Conservation District!

Harvest Bounty 🥕🌽🍅

Learn to preserve food during your busy harvest so you can enjoy your garden bounty year-round, save
money, and eliminate waste. Learn techniques to help preserve food from canning to freezing and vacuum preservation. Preserving food helps to ensure that your food stays safe to eat, is full of flavor, lasts longer, and saves money.

When: October 7, 2023
Time: 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Where: Urbana Farmstead, 2400 Kerrie Drive, Little Rock, Arkansas 72206
Cost: $15 per person

Registration closes Friday night! We have 9 spots remaining, grab your spot.

https://shorturl.at/CEHX4
Sign up👆

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10/02/2023

The sweet potato harvest was exceptional this year, our best harvest yet at over 700 lbs out of one 800 sqft plot.🍠 Thanks so much to our amazing volunteers that prepped Thursday and harvested in the heat Saturday morning to get it done! 💪

We planted on June 1 & four months later—harvest bounty!

What does it take to get this kind of yield? Good slips, great soil, a good irrigation plan & a little organic fertilizer. 🧑‍🌾

Find info on soil improvement methods in our November workshop & don’t miss out on the food preservation workshop Sat., 10/7/23!

Link to registration info:
https://shorturl.at/CEHX4
Sign up👆

Look for us at upcoming events in October to get yours sweet potatoes and they’re delicious!

09/19/2023

We’re excited to offer the first in a series of self-sustainability workshops in partnership with the Pulaski Co. Conservation District!

Introduction to Beekeeping 🐝

Learn about the amazing world of bees, the vital role that these pollinators play in local food production, and learn how to be a beekeeper yourself.

When: September 23, 2023
Time: 9 a.m. - Noon
Where: UA Little Rock Donaghey Student Ctr
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Cost: $15 per person*

This class will focus on the fascinating life of the European Honeybee and its management. Students will learn about the Honey Bee life cycle; Honey Bee castes; the types of hives commonly used with a deep dive into the Langstroth Hive; how honey is made; and information about Honey Bee pests and diseases.

*SAVE on the purchase of 3 workshops for $30 ($10/ea) when picking the combo, getting our upcoming Food Preservation & Soil Health workshops too!

Register 🔗 while slots are still available:

https://ualr.edu/garden/event/introduction-to-beekeeping/

📷: Benjamin Krain

Address

3340 Fair Park Boulevard
Little Rock, AR
72204

Website

http://ualr.edu/garden/

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" If our pilot native garden is successful, we envision future garden plantings that include experimental world gardens that feature global economic botany species that have ties to anthropology classes and student projects and possibly that have sustainable use potential in our local climate and conditions. Looking forward in an even longer term perspective, if our coalition of campus and community partners and our combined gardening expertise and capability grows effectively, we would be interested in possibly expanding our gardening activities into local food production (for educational purposes) in future years." - from the UALR Garden Proposal