I've passed by the garden many times and I always love seeing it. Seeing the different plants and flowers as I've passed by always serves to calm me down. I remember one time I was having a really bad day and I was close to tears, but then I passed by the garden on my way to class and immediately I felt better. I felt the calm after seeing all the plants. After that I've had a lot of love for the community garden and seeing it gone would be very upsetting.
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Kevin Jackson
6 years ago
The RCC farm is a unique and integral aspect of RCC’s community. It provides a second home to those who need it; it provides an extracurricular field of study which can be used to alleviate stress and help mental health, and it gives students a means of eating when they don’t have the money to buy food for themselves. Please, keep the garden as is.
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Emily Holmes
6 years ago
We have a community garden on our college campus in Memphis, and I know how important it is to our students. I support your efforts, and I wish you the best in finding a workable solution.
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Wavely N
6 years ago
The garden is a place where the people from the community as well as college can come together to serve a greater purpose. The purpose is to have a sustainable food production while giving back to those around us. It will deeply saddened me to see a green house in the middle of the beautiful Urban Farm. I hope that the administration will come to the conclusion that the green house is unnecessary and hopefully they will keep the Farm green house free.
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Daniel Aaron Francis
6 years ago
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I helped design this garden. It's a ridiculous and insulting notion to consider putting a green house on it. Considering costs, energy needs to cool such a greenhouse etc. I don't condone taking the community out of a community garden.
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Anonymous
6 years ago
Please the community needs this. How many kids will it help keep them off the streets & out of crime??
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Amber L Limon
6 years ago
While I attended RCC I learned how to compost, cultivate soil, and what could be grown in our long and hot summers. I have used this knowledge to help build a garden at home and we have now started a garden with our 4-H club. None of this would have happened if it hadn't been for the RCC Community Garden and the wonderful garden stewards.
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Blanca Zeledon
6 years ago
Save the garden. PLEASE!
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kathy weaver
6 years ago
I want the community garden
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Jacob Cadenas
6 years ago
Garden over greenhouse!!!!!!
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Gimmel Goffe-Chambers
6 years ago
Stop the madness
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Janibell Francis
6 years ago
Please leave the garden in peace and find some other location for the lab. It provides a valuable hands on experience for the students and community. And helps lower their grocery bill. Unlike gardens labs can be placed virtually anywhere.
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Nensi Castaneda
6 years ago
I am a struggling student at Riverside City College, and the RCC Urban Farm has always brightened my week with their weekly produce distributions. I have been able to bring so many fruits and vegetables home, including chard, lettuce, kale, basil, peaches, plums, grapefruit, and many more. So far, I have not seen or heard of any distributions, which brings me a lot of sadness. The current state of the space stirs a lot of concern in me about whether or not they are really using it towards the interest of the students.
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Andres Rodriguez
6 years ago
During my 2 years at RCC, I was part of the wonderful community of people that tended the RCC Community Garden. Professor Preston Galusky and Dr. Tonya Huff, the garden’s leaders, were always very welcoming and encouraged learning and independence. Even without sharing many words with the others during work days, I felt a strong sense of belonging just working alongside other community members. It was so rewarding and fulfilling to work together throughout the growing season and then share the delicious, sustainable, affordable food we grew ourselves. I enjoyed watching the birds, bees, bugs, and other critters that utilize the garden space too. The RCC Community Garden also served as a gathering space for movie nights, club meetings, and community celebrations. People gathered to enjoy music, swap knowledge, take in the beauty of the garden, and be together.
I am upset to hear that the garden will be repurposed as a Botany Laboratory. Although an appropriate learning environment for botany classes is important, so too is everything the garden offers to RCC students and the larger community. The garden should remain the inviting, welcoming space it has been, open to everyone who wants to enjoy it and help it grow.
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Matthew Hahn
6 years ago
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We need to continue to protect and promote urban farming for Riverside's future. I take my son's to the garden to help teach them to appreciate where food comes from and inspire them to respect it. This is a vital resource to not only RCC students but the neighboring community and city at large. Please keep the garden!
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Stephen Day
6 years ago
The garden is an important part of what make RCC special..
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Ken keen
6 years ago
We need to know how our food come to our table.
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Kourtney Graves
6 years ago
Wonderful garden.. Please keep it open to the community.
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Nan Simonsen
6 years ago
There are too few opportunities for students to be exposed to, and engaged in, horticulture. Especially food production. These spaces have value to the students as well as to the community.
Please keep the garden!
I've passed by the garden many times and I always love seeing it. Seeing the different plants and flowers as I've passed by always serves to calm me down. I remember one time I was having a really bad day and I was close to tears, but then I passed by the garden on my way to class and immediately I felt better. I felt the calm after seeing all the plants. After that I've had a lot of love for the community garden and seeing it gone would be very upsetting.
The RCC farm is a unique and integral aspect of RCC’s community. It provides a second home to those who need it; it provides an extracurricular field of study which can be used to alleviate stress and help mental health, and it gives students a means of eating when they don’t have the money to buy food for themselves. Please, keep the garden as is.
We have a community garden on our college campus in Memphis, and I know how important it is to our students. I support your efforts, and I wish you the best in finding a workable solution.
The garden is a place where the people from the community as well as college can come together to serve a greater purpose. The purpose is to have a sustainable food production while giving back to those around us. It will deeply saddened me to see a green house in the middle of the beautiful Urban Farm. I hope that the administration will come to the conclusion that the green house is unnecessary and hopefully they will keep the Farm green house free.
I helped design this garden. It's a ridiculous and insulting notion to consider putting a green house on it. Considering costs, energy needs to cool such a greenhouse etc. I don't condone taking the community out of a community garden.
Please the community needs this. How many kids will it help keep them off the streets & out of crime??
While I attended RCC I learned how to compost, cultivate soil, and what could be grown in our long and hot summers. I have used this knowledge to help build a garden at home and we have now started a garden with our 4-H club. None of this would have happened if it hadn't been for the RCC Community Garden and the wonderful garden stewards.
Save the garden. PLEASE!
I want the community garden
Garden over greenhouse!!!!!!
Stop the madness
Please leave the garden in peace and find some other location for the lab. It provides a valuable hands on experience for the students and community. And helps lower their grocery bill. Unlike gardens labs can be placed virtually anywhere.
I am a struggling student at Riverside City College, and the RCC Urban Farm has always brightened my week with their weekly produce distributions. I have been able to bring so many fruits and vegetables home, including chard, lettuce, kale, basil, peaches, plums, grapefruit, and many more. So far, I have not seen or heard of any distributions, which brings me a lot of sadness. The current state of the space stirs a lot of concern in me about whether or not they are really using it towards the interest of the students.
During my 2 years at RCC, I was part of the wonderful community of people that tended the RCC Community Garden. Professor Preston Galusky and Dr. Tonya Huff, the garden’s leaders, were always very welcoming and encouraged learning and independence. Even without sharing many words with the others during work days, I felt a strong sense of belonging just working alongside other community members. It was so rewarding and fulfilling to work together throughout the growing season and then share the delicious, sustainable, affordable food we grew ourselves. I enjoyed watching the birds, bees, bugs, and other critters that utilize the garden space too. The RCC Community Garden also served as a gathering space for movie nights, club meetings, and community celebrations. People gathered to enjoy music, swap knowledge, take in the beauty of the garden, and be together. I am upset to hear that the garden will be repurposed as a Botany Laboratory. Although an appropriate learning environment for botany classes is important, so too is everything the garden offers to RCC students and the larger community. The garden should remain the inviting, welcoming space it has been, open to everyone who wants to enjoy it and help it grow.
We need to continue to protect and promote urban farming for Riverside's future. I take my son's to the garden to help teach them to appreciate where food comes from and inspire them to respect it. This is a vital resource to not only RCC students but the neighboring community and city at large. Please keep the garden!
The garden is an important part of what make RCC special..
We need to know how our food come to our table.
Wonderful garden.. Please keep it open to the community.
There are too few opportunities for students to be exposed to, and engaged in, horticulture. Especially food production. These spaces have value to the students as well as to the community.