{"id":128,"date":"2024-04-07T17:14:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T00:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/csej\/?page_id=128"},"modified":"2026-03-25T15:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:52:12","slug":"campus-learning-garden","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/csej\/campus-learning-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus Learning Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Indigenous Learning Garden and Student Community Garden<\/h1>\n\n\n
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WSUV Student Garden Plot Application<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Washington State University Vancouver students may now apply for a garden plot in the WSUV Student Garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The WSUV Student Garden is a place where students and other members of the WSUV community can grow food, learn to grow food and teach others to grow food. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participants will support their own food security and the food security of the campus and local communities. They will also build community as they work to build and maintain the ecological and social sustainability of the garden space. <\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n\n

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Thank you to all who have applied for a plot. Applications are currently closed and will reopen in late spring of 2026. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you have any questions about the WSUV Student Garden, please contact Paul Thiers at pthiers@wsu.edu. <\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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A Brief History of the Campus Gardens at WSU Vancouver <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In 2020 at the start of the pandemic, in the wake of disruptions to the corporate food supply, food spoilage and food dumping, CSEJ researchers launched the Food System Justice Action Research Project (FSJAR) to study root causes of \u2013 and formulate solutions to \u2013 hunger on campus and in the broader SW Washington community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2023, with strong student support, and the support of WSU Vancouver’s Native American Community Advisory Board (NACAB), Native American Programs and the Collective for Social and Environmental Justice collaborated to launch a new campus Indigenous Traditional Ecological Cultural Knowledge (ITECK) Garden and Student Community Garden, with a groundbreaking celebration making front page news in The Columbian<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Food System Justice Action Research Project (FSJAR) and the gardens are emerging as powerful new sites of community formation on campus and are helping to grow a culture in which \u201cEverybody Eats,\u201d and no one has to go through university hungry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Plants in a garden plot north of the Clark College Building on the WSU Vancouver campus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For information on how you can get involved and support the gardens, <\/strong>contact <\/strong>pthiers@wsu.edu and Bethany.Fischer@wsu.edu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The brief bibliography below highlights the strategies and benefits of integrating learning gardens across disciplines in higher education as well as K-12 .<\/p>\n\n\n

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Aftandilian, David, and Lyn Dart. “Using garden-based service-learning to work toward food justice, better educate students, and strengthen campus-community ties.”<\/a> Journal of community engagement and scholarship 6, no. 1 (2013): 55-69.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bailey, Deborah L., and John H. Falk. “Personal meaning mapping as a tool to uncover learning from an out-of-doors free-choice learning garden.”<\/a> Research in Outdoor Education 14 (2016): 64-85.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burns, Heather, and Weston Miller. “The Learning Gardens Laboratory: Teaching sustainability and developing sustainable food systems through unique partnerships.”<\/a> Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (2012).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cheang, Chi Chiu, Wing-Mui Winnie So, Ying Zhan, and Kwok Ho Tsoi. “Education for sustainability using a campus eco-garden as a learning environment.”<\/a> International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education (2017).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duram, Leslie A., and Sydney K. Klein. “University food gardens: A unifying place for higher education sustainability.”<\/a> International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development 9, no. 3\/4 (2015).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ferguson, Bruce G., Helda Morales, Kimberly Chung, and Ron Nigh. “Scaling out agroecology from the school garden: the importance of culture, food, and place.” Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems 43, no. 7-8 (2019): 724-743.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gerofsky, Susan. “What we have learned from campus teaching and learning gardens: The UBC Orchard Garden and Cultivating Learning Network.”<\/a> University Alliance for Sustainability Spring Campus 2016 Conference Proceedings. 110-121.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gunter, Benjamin Little. “Assessing the usefulness of the LivingRoom learning gardens at Galloway Elementary School, Partnership Middle School, and Leland Park Middle School for teaching.”<\/a> (2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hauk, Marna, Dilafruz Williams, Judy BlueHorse Skelton, Sybil Schantz Kelley, Susan Gerofsky, and Claire Lagerwey. “Learning gardens for all: Diversity and inclusion.”<\/a> (2018): 41.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Huerta, Angelica M. “Evaluation of Urban Learning Garden Education and the Impact on Sustainability.” PhD diss., The Ohio State University, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jacob, Michelle Cristine Medeiros. “Biodiversity of underutilized food plants in a community-based learning garden\/Biodiversidade de plantas alimenticias nao convencionais em uma horta comunitaria com fins educativos.”<\/a> Demetra: Food, Nutrition & Health 15 (2020): 1-18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hughes, Bridget A. “It’s About Growing and Learning”: Facilitating Inquiry and Participation at the Muir Community Learning Garden. California Institute of Integral Studies, 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Klein, Sydney. “The role of university food gardens in higher education sustainability.”<\/a> PhD diss., Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kulnieks, Andrejs, and Kelly Young. “Exploring ecological literacy in teacher identity: Reflexive inquiry through a learning garden curricula.”<\/a> In The Negotiated Self, pp. 76-85. Brill, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mamuszka, Lauren, Jenna Frank, Eliza Hollister, Actions Experiential Education, and Garden-Based Learning. “Cultivating Seeds of Change: Knowledge, Perception and Behavior Outcomes of an Experiential Plant Literacy Curriculum.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

P\u00e9rez-L\u00f3pez, Raquel, Marcia Eugenio-Gozalbo, Daniel Zuazagoitia, and Aritz Ruiz-Gonz\u00e1lez. “Organic learning gardens in higher education: do they improve kindergarten pre-service teachers\u2019 connectedness to and conception of nature?”<\/a> Frontiers in psychology 11 (2020): 282.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Predny, Mary L., and Diane Relf “Horticulture therapy activities for preschool children, elderly adults, and intergenerational groups.”<\/a> Activities, Adaptation & Aging 28, no. 3 (2004): 1-18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ray, Jan, Koh Ming Wei, and Diane Barrett. “Effect of experience-based school learning gardens professional development program workshop on teachers\u2019 attitudes towards sustainability education.”<\/a> Journal of Sustainability Education 5 (2013): 2151-7452.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smith, Deborah J. “Horticultural therapy: The garden benefits everyone.”<\/a> Journal of psychosocial nursing and mental health services 36, no. 10 (1998): 14-21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solenberger, Diana, and Elise Patkotak. “Ilisagvik’s Heritage Tundra Garden Revitalizes Traditional Plant Knowledge.”<\/a> Tribal College 30, no. 3 (2019): 14-15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Waliczek, T. M., and J. M. Zajicek. “The benefits of integrating service teaching and learning techniques into an undergraduate horticulture curriculum.”<\/a> HortTechnology 20, no. 5 (2010): 934-942.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Westerheijden, Don F., Jeroen Huisman, and Harry De Boer. “Ground force does the Dutch higher education gardens: three scenarios revisited.”<\/a> Policy Futures in Education 2, no. 2 (2004): 374-387.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Williams, Dilafruz, and Jonathan Brown. Learning gardens and sustainability education: Bringing life to schools and schools to life.<\/a> Routledge, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taylora, Julie Anne, K. Dara Hilla, and Jerry W. Taitb. “Learning Gardens and Social Education in Detroit.” Social Studies Teaching and Learning: 131.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kelley, Sybil S., and Dilafruz R. Williams. “Teacher professional learning communities for sustainability: Supporting STEM in learning gardens in low-income schools.”<\/a> Journal of Sustainability Education (2013).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Withers, Denissia E. Engaging Community Food Systems through Learning Garden Programs: Oregon Food Bank’s Seed to Supper Program.<\/a> Portland State University, 2012.<\/p>\n\n <\/section>\n<\/div>\r\n\n\n

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Assefa, Martha, Pat Barnosky, Michelle Beaulieu, Amy Borg, Casey Burns, Marguerite Cawley, Jennifer De Jordy et al. “Next Steps from a School Gardening Partnership Conference (AGES: Academic Gardening to Enrich our Students): Expanding the Impact of School Gardens Through Higher Education, K-12 School and Community Coalitions.”<\/a> (2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bang, Megan. “A case study: Learning gardens in an urban indigenous community: Expanding the scope of learning.”<\/a> In Sowing seeds in the city, pp. 257-268. Springer, Dordrecht, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catlin, Pamela. “Developmental disabilities and horticultural therapy practice.”<\/a> Horticulture as therapy: Principles and practice. Food Products Press, New York (1997): 131-156.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dawe, Peter, Anthea Fawcett, and Torres Webb. “Learning gardens cultivating health and well-being\u2013Stories from Australia.”<\/a> In Agrobiodiversity, School Gardens and Healthy Diets, pp. 193-207. Routledge, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eugenio-Gozalbo, Marcia, Guadalupe Ramos-Truchero, and Rafael Su\u00e1rez-L\u00f3pez. “University gardens for sustainable citizenship: assessing the impacts of garden-based learning on environmental and food education at Spanish higher education.”<\/a> International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education (2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gaylie, Veronica. The learning garden: Ecology, teaching, and transformation.<\/a> Peter Lang, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gilbert, Kara Marie. Youth Voices of Bounty and Opportunity: High School Students’ Experiences With Food and Community.<\/a> Portland State University, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haller, Rebecca L., and Christine L. Capra. Horticultural therapy methods: Connecting people and plants in health care, human services, and therapeutic programs<\/a>. CRC Press, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hughes, Bridget A. “It’s About Growing and Learning”: Facilitating Inquiry and Participation at the Muir Community Learning Garden.<\/a> California Institute of Integral Studies, 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jagger, Susan. “Opening a space of\/for curriculum: The learning garden as context and content for difference in mathematics education.”<\/a> In Transdisciplinarity in Mathematics Education, pp. 89-106. Springer, Cham, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jagger, Susan, Erin Sperling, and Hilary Inwood. “What\u2019s growing on here? Garden-based pedagogy in a concrete jungle.”<\/a> Environmental Education Research 22, no. 2 (2016): 271-287.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kelley, Sybil S., and Dilafruz R. Williams. “Teacher professional learning communities for sustainability: Supporting STEM in learning gardens in low-income schools.”<\/a> Journal of Sustainability Education (2013).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kulnieks, Andrejs, Dan Roronhiakewan Longboat, and Kelly Young. “Eco-Literacy Development through a Framework for Indigenous and Environmental Educational Leadership.”<\/a> Canadian Journal of Environmental Education 18 (2013): 111-125.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maracle, Kelly. “Indigenous Knowledge and Pollinator Gardens.”<\/a> PhD diss., Queen’s University (Canada), 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Murakami, Christopher D.“Developing a learning garden on a mid-western land grant university.”<\/a> In Learning, Food, and Sustainability, pp. 75-92. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Predny, Mary L., and Diane Relf. “Horticulture therapy activities for preschool children, elderly adults, and intergenerational groups.”<\/a> Activities, Adaptation & Aging 28, no. 3 (2004): 1-18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pierce, Clayton. “Against neoliberal pedagogies of plants and people: Mapping actor networks of biocapital in learning gardens.”<\/a> Environmental Education Research 21, no. 3 (2015): 460-477.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Porter, Christine M. “What gardens grow: Outcomes from home and community gardens supported by community-based food justice organizations.”<\/a> Journal of agriculture, food systems, and community development 8, no. Suppl 1 (2018): 187.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simson, Sharon, and Martha Straus. Horticulture as therapy: Principles and practice.<\/a> CRC Press, 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Skinner, Ellen A., Una Chi, and The Learning-Gardens Educational Assessment Group 1. “Intrinsic motivation and engagement as \u201cactive ingredients\u201d in garden-based education: Examining models and measures derived from self-determination theory.”<\/a> The Journal of Environmental Education 43, no. 1 (2012): 16-36.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stroink, M., Connie H. Nelson, and Brian McLaren. “The learning garden: Place-based learning for holistic First Nations’ community health.”<\/a> Thunder Bay, ON: Lakehead University (2010).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Williams, Dilafruz. “Regenerative hope: Pedagogy of action and agency in the learning gardens.” Education 2010 (2010).<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Williams, Dilafruz, and Jennifer Anderson. “Tongue-Tied No More: Diversity Pedagogy and Sense of Place in the Learning Gardens.”<\/a> Canadian Journal of Environmental Education 20 (2015): 25-45.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Williams, Dilafruz R., Heather Brule, Sybil S. Kelley, and Ellen A. Skinner. “Science in the Learning Gardens (SciLG): A study of students\u2019 motivation, achievement, and science identity in low-income middle schools.”<\/a> International journal of STEM education 5, no. 1 (2018): 1-14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Withers, Denissia, and Heather L. Burns. “Enhancing food security through experiential sustainability leadership practices: A study of the Seed to Supper program.”<\/a> Journal of Sustainability Education 5, no. 1 (2013).<\/p>\n\n <\/section>\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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