Post from Katie Thomason

Our urban agriculture group has come across a few problems.  We originally planned to builld a vertical garden on the roof of Liberty residence hall.  We had a few issues, however, with gaining access to this location.  We then were fortunate to gain a new location- the roof of the MES office on King St.  We redesigned our structure to be a 8 x 2ft box where we would plant things like thyme, collards, fava beans, and beets.  This project was meant to be an experiment to see what worked and what didn’t so we could expand/improve it in the future.  Once we decided on this new plan we sent in a proposal to try to gain funding and planned to build this week.  We recently encountered another problem, however: we did not gain funding.  We are in a very tight time crunch and will gather today to figure out our next steps from here, hoping for the best.