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Browsing: Baylor Community Garden
From the colors of the sunrise to roly polies digging in the compost, to harvesting the produce, the Baylor Community Garden offers a space of calm and community to wrap up a busy week as a student.
The minor, which incorporates the study of the humanities into an examination of climate issues, now sports a wider array of courses and funding to facilitate student engagement.
Dr. Josh King, director of Baylor’s new environmental humanities minor, said the new environmental humanities minor has one simple goal in mind: to balance humanities and science to get a full look at climate change and inspire action.
Baylor’s Community Garden is starting fresh this fall after a three-year hiatus, with help from water-preservation technologies, campus composting and a new environmental humanities minor.
The Baylor Community Garden will be planted at 10 a.m. Saturday at Ninth Street and James Avenue. Students are invited to help — volunteers will go through a brief training session, plant the beds, and then have lunch in the garden. For more information, email Hannah Laird at Hannah_Laird@baylor.edu.
“I am writing in regard to the recent article on Baylor’s Community Garden in the Jan. 19 edition of The Lariat.”
Despite adverse weather conditions and sudden venue changes, the Baylor population and the Waco community came to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the dedication ceremony of the Baylor Community Garden.