Farm Club organizes Planting Party

Students and staff members gathered at the Sustainable Agriculture Project May 25 to help plant summer crops, including tomatoes, pumpkins, summer squash and peppers. The day was organized by the student group Farm Club and the produce will be sold on campus this summer.

The Grand Valley Sustainable Agriculture Project is a collaboration between students, faculty and staff members to experience sustainable agriculture. The project has been operating since 2008 and has expanded over the past few years. The project includes plants that grow outdoors and inside of a hoop house, which is an unheated structure that measures 30 feet by 72 feet and is covered in two layers of plastic to help extend the growing season.