Today — December 17, 2025 — we assembled and installed our first two garden planters for students living in Family Housing. With a skeleton crew of Stephen, Jack, and Kate, along with Stephen’s trusty little red truck, we took our 7.5’x2′ beds through rain, wind, and even a bit of sun to get the ball rolling with concrete work to help students improve their access to nutritious and rewarding food.
Here’s one of the beds, sitting in its new home. Soil and plants will be added when the winter rains subside and the students in the unit have settled on the final location of the bed.
Here Jack and Kate show off another of the beds inside a patio enclosure. The beds are made with 1×8 cedar boards to provide natural pest deterrence and to last a long time in the west coast weather.
Kate and Jack show off the size of the planters (and gang signs, maybe?).
Huge appreciation for the Emerging Learning Fund, the Community-Engaged Learning office, and the Campus Community Gardens for helping make this a reality!
If you live in Family Housing and would like us to build you a planter so you can grow some of your own food, just email saross@uvic. ca and we’ll make it happen. #food4thought
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