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UGArden Teaching & Demonstration Farm

UGArden seeks to promote the social, environmental, and nutritional benefits of sustainable gardening through the
management of a 4-acre student-run community garden, fruit orchard, and woodland mushroom demonstration area.
UGArden serves as an outdoor living laboratory for freshman first-year Odyssey seminars, courses in sustainable food
production, and other academic offerings including the Local Food Systems Certificate. Produce grown at UGArden is
distributed through the UGA Campus Kitchen Program, a market at the Athens Area Council on Aging for low-income
families and weekly farm stand. Community outreach programs include Experience UGA, an annual program that hosts
7th graders from Clarke County; satellite gardens at Clarke Middle School and the Athens Area Council on Aging;
workshops and classes offered through Cooperative Extension and the UGA OLLE Program; and numerous farm tours
throughout the year. In FY 14, over 8,752 pounds of fresh organically grown produce were distributed to the community.