At yesterday's meeting, we had two students from the SGA, Jack Neumeier and David Wecht share their vision for a community garden on campus.

One concern has been brought up repeatedly: if a garden has peak harvest and labor needs over the summer, when we have few students on campus, how will this be maintained? After giving this question some thought and talking with students here are some possibilities we may explore:

• Providing a summer internship, or service/leadership position to maintain the garden
• Incorporating the garden into a summer class
• Creating an oversight committee that will work to recruit summer volunteers
• Coordinate with any summer programs that may require service opportunities
• Coordinate with Residential Life to reach out to students staying on campus throughout the summer months
• Link with community partners in Catonsville and Arbutus
• Recruit graduate students who may be conducting research over the summer
• Have weekly "work days" where UMBC students residing in the area may travel back to campus to work on the garden with a community of volunteers
• Establishing a living-learning community on health & wellness or sustainability (both under consideration) that would overhaul the garden and any overgrowth at the start of seach fall semester as a service project
• Reach out to faculty, staff, and community partners to establish summer plot allocations, distinctive to fall and spring student group allocations
• Establish a weekly community service project that students may recieve a notation on their transcript for
• Research what other campus gardens do to tackle this issue

For anyone who missed the meeting, here is the draft vision statement they have posted on the Facebook group: