Grad student Allison Guthrie shows Renata Santander with the Campus Food Bank which vegetables from the Science Community Garden are ready to be harvested.Science students at the University of Calgary use their roof top greenhouse to conduct all kinds of projects and had a little extra space that wasn't being used. so some of them came up with the idea of growing food for the campus food bank.
"It shows how talented our students are, how driven our students are and creative," she said. "It's student led, it's developed by students, and the faculty is there helping along the way." "The plants grow themselves but I would say just the watering and the harvesting takes a fair bit of time," said Guthrie. "The tomatoes are getting big, we have to hand pollinate them because they're in a greenhouse, they don't have bees to do that pollinating for us."
"I've consulted with Alberta Health Services, particularly their food safety team," she said. "Just to make sure that we are doing things properly and safely.""We had three different varieties of lettuce," she said. "Each bag contains two to three heads of lettuce so in total, there was over 60 heads of lettuce that were donated to the Campus Food Bank."
"This is grown by students, for students," said Santander. "For people in our community, it's organic and run right here on campus, a really great initiative and something that clients have been really interested in and something that has really helped them and we're very excited about this partnership.
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