Garden Tours
The Edible Campus Program provides support to 8 community gardens and directly manages 6 of those gardens. You can read about each of those gardens on our garden overview page. We offer tours of these gardens regularly. We have a large enough staff that faculty and other folks interested in tours can just let us know what days and times you would prefer a tour and we will work around your schedule. Our largest gardens can host tours of up to 120 people. With large groups, we will typically meet as a whole group at the garden and then break groups into smaller groups of 10-20 people that can explore the garden simultaneously. For classes with sections, we sometimes do garden tours during the sections since those are already a good size group for tours and then just repeat the tour for as many sections as there are. We have done this for 800 person classes before. When we break into groups, we will make sure there is a student garden lead in each group. Please contact Katie Maynard kcmaynard@ucsb.edu to book a tour.
Booking Space at the Garden
If you would prefer to lead a tour or workshop yourself at one of our gardens that is also a possibility. The Edible Campus Program provides support to 8 community gardens and directly manages 6 of those gardens. You can read about each of those gardens on our garden overview page. Please contact Katie Maynard kcmaynard@ucsb.edu to let us know the size of your group, what activities you would want to do, and your preferred dates and times. Katie will get back to you with recommendations as to which gardens might meet those needs.
Presentations and Workshops
The Edible Campus Program is able to develop tailored workshops and presentations. In the past, our team has partnered with faculty in Sociology, Environmental Studies, Anthropology, Earth Science, Geography, Writing, English, Computer Science, Middle East Studies, Chicano Studies and more. We can focus on particular types of crops or growing methods, provide a broad overview of urban and neighborhood gardens, provide experiential learning (such as writing activities or having students grow their own crops), or focus on specific topics of interest relevant for the course/field of study, etc. We can either host you at one of our gardens or come to your classroom. Please contact Katie Maynard kcmaynard@ucsb.edu to book a presentation. Please let us know the size group you have, what topics you would want covered, and any timing preferences.
