Prince George’s Community College’s garden is growing, in more ways than one

in-article-vertical-video float right padding-left px width px key media only screen and max-width px in-article-vertical-video float none padding-left px in-article-vertical-video connatix video caption width px fundamental tnvbNcaMHUrl margin-bottom px padding px px background D text-align center font-weight bold color fff border-radius px connatix video caption margin-bottom px margin-top font-size px color font-weight text-align left display none This page contains a video which is being blocked by your ad blocker In order to view the video you must disable your ad blocker new Image src https capi connatix com tr si token be c -c - acb-af - a ccca cid c ffed c- - c -b f- c d a cnx cmd push function cnx playerId bc b - b- e d-b b - e mediaId c b e -dfda- f -bc -dd a b render c ff b c adbf function renderError playerApi if renderError playerApi typeof playerApi getSize function var size playerApi getSize var captionElements document querySelectorAll connatix video caption var captionElementsArray captionElements captionElementsArray forEach el if el size el style width size width px el style display block Prince George's Region College's garden is growing in more strategies than one In only a year the locality garden at Prince George s Group College generated over pounds of fresh produce food that generally didn t last long either going home with contributors who help maintain the garden or with students who could use a little help with grocery costs The garden is a small plot of land near the campus baseball field and is already showing signs of sprouting again and there s excitement that even more improvement is practicable We have carrots spinach particular cabbage we have greens peppers basil reported Laura Miller a communications professor and the director of system learning at PGCC We re also growing specific flowers that are pollinating plants to help attract pollinators to help the plants grow even faster She revealed she didn t reliably have a green thumb but when it came time to find a good system learning project what she heard from students in her classroom led her to the idea for the garden I had students in my classes coming to class hungry coming to class saying food was expensive Miller commented They were picking up a bag of chips for breakfast And so that led me to be thinking about how prevalent this issue is of food insecurity The garden is already showing advance where squash and tomatoes were planted Melons cantaloupes onions and beets will also get harvested eventually As the garden grows even if you re not a learner at PGCC if you or someone you know could use a little help with the grocery bill they re willing to work with you if you re willing to work Anyone who wants to come and volunteer can also receive produce from us if they help us out in the garden Miller mentioned We reliably need help especially in the summer Miller can be reached via email and financial donations are welcome to help this project flourish I didn t consider myself a gardener before But I ve just seen the benefits of what this is doing with our district and all the endorsement that people have provided So I think that the impact is far-reaching Miller noted Source