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The administration has confirmed that the greenhouse project will be relocated away from our cultivated fields. This outcome preserves the hard work invested in our garden and ensures that our educational programs can continue as planned. Thank you for helping protect this space while we remain diligent in monitoring the …

December 21, 2013

Save the farm!

Save the farm!

🏆 Won — 379 supporters Verified

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Started by Anonymous 12 years, 11 months ago
It is under consideration by the UGA Facilities Management to build a greenhouse complex on our upper field at UGArden. This complex would destroy our fields that we have spent countless hours amending and cultivating. The greenhouse complex would eliminate part of the orchard, including apple plantings, berries, and muscadines. There are several UGA classes that have plots that are a key element to their class and would be demolished if the greenhouse is built. Also, through our community outreach, a group of homeschoolers and their families work on a plot that would also be destroyed.


We have been in communication with the UGA Architects Office from the beginning of UGArden to ensure that out fields are compliant with the master plan for the greenhouses. Building the greenhouse complex in our fields is not in the master plan. Please help us by signing our petition to save this integral part of our farm.




Updates

Reached 250 supporters

October 3, 2013

Reached 100 supporters

October 2, 2013

6 Comments

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David Ingram
12 years ago Featured

This is ridiculous. The plan said it wouldnt go there. Leave the garden alone!!!

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Tom Young
12 years ago Featured

Please preserve the orchard. Its a huge part of the community and losing it would be such a shame for everyone involved.

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Emily Beck
12 years ago Featured

UGA keeps taking away our green space. Enough is enough.

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Mike Simmons
12 years ago Featured

dont touch those orchards. seriously. weve put way too much work into those plots to just have them paved over for a building.

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Sarah Pearson
12 years ago Featured

This farm is the best part of campus. Why would they destroy something that actually works and helps people learn? Find somewhere else to build.

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Jessica Patterson
12 years ago Featured

My kids love the homeschool program there. Its educational and keeps them outside. UGA needs to respect the hard work these volunteers put in.