The Garden Project at the University of San Francisco

Urban Green: USF Garden, Pt 2 from Madhouse Muse on Vimeo. Urban Green tours USF’s campus garden and meets David Silver, Associate Professor, USF Media Studies, one of the innovative educators behind USF Garden Project.

The Garden Project
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The Garden Project is an innovative learning community for first-year students and rising juniors and seniors of any major. This community experience offers a rare opportunity for students to engage in community design and gardening by cultivating the 1/4- acre organic garden on campus. Through active involvement, students learn about climate change, water rights, food security, and social and economic justice as related to food production. Facilitated by faculty and staff, students take coursework together and live in designated space in the residence halls (1st year students only).

Urban Green: USF Garden, Pt 1 from Madhouse Muse on Vimeo. A unique USF class that combines gardening, cooking, social activism and media studies.

In addition to new, first-year students, the community includes selected rising junior and senior students. All GPC students take the required coursework for both semesters and are expected to fulfill the expectations of the community. First-year students will live in Hayes-Healy Residence Hall and junior/senior students determine their own housing arrangements.

Upon successful completion of both semesters in the community, Garden Project students fulfill these requirements:

Social Science (Core Area E)
Service-Learning (SL)
8 units elective credits

See more about the project here.