Group 29 – The Orchard Garden – The Orchard Garden Workshop Series
Situated behind the Macmillan building is the Orchard Garden. As nearly every LFS student has come to know, the Orchard Garden grows a bounty of fresh veggies for the campus and is a perfect place for outdoor-based educational workshops. This year the organizers asked what could possibly make their workshops even more interactive and fun? An outdoor kitchen! Which brings me to introducing group 29.
Group 29 was given the task of planning an outdoor kitchen next to the Orchard Garden, which was quite the undertaking and presented many ups and downs for the group members. Grant proposals were made for supplies and they even came up with their own design possibility. Things were looking good with all this hard work and it really seemed that their plan would stick around in the long run. Unfortunately it was too good to be true. After a meeting with the Macmillan building ops manager they found out that there were developmental plans for the Orchard Garden space and all their hard efforts would not last. But, ever the resilient bunch of students, they bounced back from that disappointment and found comfort in the fact that their work would still make a difference to those using the kitchen in the mean time.
Along with kitchen planning, the members of group 29 enjoyed harvesting and maintaining the fall Orchard crop to complete their CBEL experience. All in all, this project is thought of fondly by its members.
Kat.