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A nationally recognized sustainability initiative sponsored by UMass Dining:

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The UMass Permaculture Initiative is a unique and cutting-edge sustainability program that converts underused grass lawns on the campus into edible, low-maintenance, and easily replicable gardens. This initiative was created by students and then adopted and funded by our administration in 2010. Students and permaculture staff work together along with UMass Dining Services, Sustainable UMass, and v

arious campus departments to demonstrate the vision of what a sustainable community and world can look like. UMass is one of the only public universities in the country implementing sustainable permaculture gardens directly on campus each year and serving the local, healthy produce in the UMass Dining Commons.

12/10/2023

Happening tomorrow! 12-3pm I’m Blue Wall Atrium. Make wreaths, candles, ornaments, and tea blends with us! Pay what you can donations encouraged, please bring cash with you!🌲❄️

12/06/2023

We are just TWO days out from the Winter Farmers’ Market! Join us this Friday from 12-4pm in the Blue Wall Atrium for our final market of the semester. Pick up local holiday gifts from , Stockbridge Floral Design, and many other student groups and student crafters!

11/28/2023

Our annual holiday gift making event will round out the semester on Monday December 11th from 12-3pm in the Blue Wall Atrium! Take a break from studying and learn to make crafts with local materials! You’ll be able to leave with handmade gifts for your family and friends.

11/15/2023

Our final market of the year will be Friday December 8th from 12-4pm in the Blue Wall Atrium Room.

Vendors will include jams & tea blends from , dried flowers from Stockbridge Floral Design, local meat from , jewelry, crochet, and other goods from student crafters, and much more!

11/09/2023

Have things you no longer need or things you’d like to find? We can reduce waste and care for the earth while also caring for each other by exchanging according to our needs! Join at the Thing Swap TOMORROW!

Friday November 10th 3-5pm in Bartlett Lobby! Bring a thing or two and take a thing or two! Stay for the community!

11/08/2023

As our fall season is wrapping you, stay tuned for our spring volunteer sessions!
Spring Semester - Wednesdays 3-4:30pm at the Log Circle! First meeting TBA

11/06/2023

Want to be a part of the UMass holiday market? Sign up now to be a vendor or tabler!

11/02/2023

Today is our final volunteer session of the season! Big thank you to all who came this Fall and built a beautiful community around the gardens.

Stay tuned for some great late Fall events and maybe even some culinary-focused gatherings too.

10/25/2023

Following the first frost, last Friday we had our first ever harvest of peanuts! This Northern Hardy Valencia peanut variety was one of the new plants we experimented with this past season in the additional space in our new Frank East garden.

Peanuts appreciate well drained soil, so they are a great fit for our new raised beds. They enjoy being companion planted with plants that also grow underground in similar conditions, and those which are not too tall to shade them out, such as beets, carrots, and potatoes. Like other legumes, peanuts are also great nitrogen fixers for our soil!

Peanuts are native to South America and have historically been cultivated for food and been processed into oil and beverages. Our peanut seed is from a seed company local to the Northeast called Fruition Seeds.

10/20/2023

Due to rain, the Farmers’ Market will be CANCELLED today (10/20). Stay tuned for our last market of the season next Friday- there will be pumpkins, flowers, Halloween costumes, and more!

10/18/2023

Join us for an additional volunteer session this Sunday (10/22) from 10-12pm! We will be painting signs for the garden and foraging edible foods like acorns, black walnuts, and more! As well, if you missed cider pressing at the farmers’ market, we will be pressing more of our foraged apples at our normal volunteer session this Thursday.

10/12/2023

Want to try our freshly harvested ginger? We’ll be serving it up at the umass farmers market in some fresh apple cider, which we’ll be pressing on the spot with some campus-foraged apples. Come by between 12 and 4 pm on Goodell Lawn to give it a try.

Address

260 Stockbridge Road
Amherst, MA
01003

Telephone

+14135458682

Website

http://www.localumass.com/permaculture

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A Permaculture Story

The UMass Permaculture Initiative is a unique and cutting-edge sustainability program that converts underutilized campus lawns into edible, low-maintenance, and easily replicable gardens. This initiative was created by students and then adopted and funded by our administration in 2010. Students and UMass Permaculture staff work together along with UMass Dining Services, The Stockbridge School of Agriculture, and various campus departments to demonstrate the vision of what a sustainable community and world can look like. UMass is one of the only public universities in the country implementing sustainable permaculture gardens directly on campus each year and serving the local, healthy produce in the UMass Dining Commons. Visit our website.

View our documentary.