Office for Sustainability

👩‍🌾 Learn how to grow brassicas in your garden! And keep scrolling to learn what a brassica is...🤔 🚜 Our Gardening Workshop on Wednesday, March 25, 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. in the UR Orchard & Food Forest is about how to plant brassicas 🥬 which are plants like kale, cauliflower, and cabbage, typically some of your hardier vegetables and greens. 🥗 Join Joseph Day, our Natural Areas Steward, to learn about the different types of...

If you haven't signed up for the residential composting program, you're missing out on the opportunity to turn "trash" into treasure!! 💰️💰️💰️ When you compost at University of Richmond, your food scraps and organic waste are processed and turned into rich soil to be used in natural areas like Abby's Garden. That's right. Your potato peels from last night's dinner can be used to grow next season's vegetable crops. And Rethink...

🥔 If you've ever wondered how a potato makes it from the ground to your dinner plate, mark your calendar for this upcoming event! ☘️ In celebration of St. Patrick's Day, we will be hosting a demo on potato planting in Abby's Garden! Join us to learn about what it takes to produce a bountiful potato harvest. 🥔🥔 Check out these potatoes we dug up from last year's crop! 🌈 Details below: 🍀 St. Patrick's Day Potato Planting 📆...

Thanks to everyone who joined us for the film screening of Cigarette Surfboard last week! We were so grateful to host the filmmaker Ben Judkins and the incredible surfboards made from cigarettes. There are still a few more films left in the Richmond Environmental Film Festival! Tonight, you can catch The Little Things That Run the World at the LaPrade Library in Chesterfield, and on Saturday, Future Council will be playing at the VMFA as the...