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Part of our sustainability effort includes making sure that we use as many local products as we can. This focus has gotten even closer to home with our expanding Campus Grown projects. Beginning in September 2019, Dining Services began creating Campus Grown special salads, which use ingredients grown straight from the vertical aeroponic Tower Gardens® at Oglethorpe Dining Commons and produce from UGArden. These Campus Grown salads are periodically available at East Side Deli, located in Joe Frank Harris, when new harvests arrive.
Examples of Campus Grown items include:
Oglethorpe Dining Commons has introduced six new Tower Gardens®, a self-watering and self-contained aeroponic vertical gardening system. With aeroponic technology and specially formulated nutrients, vertical aeroponics allow fruits, vegetables, herbs, leafy greens, and edible flowers to be grown on campus. Beginning in September 2019, Dining Services has used produce from these gardens in special Campus Grown salads at East Side Deli in Joe Frank Harris. Dining Services plans to further incorporate harvested crops into select menus.