Argos' Edible Campus

09/07/2021

WOOT!

In the spring of 2021, Chasidy Hobbs, a faculty member in the Earth and Environmental Sciences department at UWF, created Argos’ Edible Campus. The program helps to combat food insecurity on campus, one tree at a time. As co-director of the UWF Community Garden, Hobbs and multiple student voluntee...

06/09/2021

Thank you President Martha Dunagin Saunders for the great coverage!!

The UWF Community Garden provides the opportunity to grow relationships with members of the community. UWF President Martha Saunders welcomes anyone who shares UWF's passion for digging in the dirt and watching plants bloom.

05/24/2021

Great coverage of our program on the Replate blog!!

A college campus finds a new, sustainable approach to countering food insecurity.

04/30/2021

We are extremely excited to announce that our Story Map won Map of the Month for the state of Florida! Check it out here: https://arcg.is/19vKTO

04/28/2021

Congrats to the Argos' Edible Campus gardeners!!

Join us in congratulating the Argos' Edible Campus team for winning the HIP Student Showcase Best Service Learning & Best Collaborative Project Awards at the Student Scholars Symposium on 4/15!

The Argos' Edible Campus program provides access to fresh fruits, nuts, and vegetables across campus: free for any student to harvest! 1 in 12 UWF students visit the Argo Pantry every year. In addition to the Argo Pantry and the UWF Community Garden, the Argos' Edible Campus program is part of UWF's response to food insecurity on our campus. We aim to remove the stigma of food insecurity by empowering students to get involved with growing their own food.

Learn more here: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/71c17860449744e68a01fd2105d31f62

Well done, Argos!

.EES

04/26/2021

Join us in congratulating the Argos' Edible Campus team for winning the HIP Student Showcase Best Service Learning & Best Collaborative Project Awards at the Student Scholars Symposium on 4/15!

The Argos' Edible Campus program provides access to fresh fruits, nuts, and vegetables across campus: free for any student to harvest! 1 in 12 UWF students visit the Argo Pantry every year. In addition to the Argo Pantry and the UWF Community Garden, the Argos' Edible Campus program is part of UWF's response to food insecurity on our campus. We aim to remove the stigma of food insecurity by empowering students to get involved with growing their own food.

Learn more here: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/71c17860449744e68a01fd2105d31f62

Well done, Argos!

.EES

04/20/2021

Creating edible landscapes to combat food insecurity on campus, one tree at a time

04/17/2021

https://youtube.com/watch?v=DfYt4y9VsDM&feature=share

A video describing Argos’ edible campus, an initiative at UWF that focuses on planting edible plants across campus

04/17/2021

The Argo Pantry also helps to combat food insecurity throughout campus by providing nonperishables for students! They are located at the Dean of Students office, Building 18, and are open Mondays and Thursdays from 11 AM - 1 PM. Any enrolled UWF student has access to Argo Pantry! Go check them out!

https://uwf.edu/academic-engagement-and-student-affairs/departments/dean-of-students/argo-pantry/argo-pantry/

04/17/2021

The UWF student body faces the ongoing issue of Food Insecurity. Nearly 30% of undergraduate students at UWF consider themselves food insecure while a quarter of students nationally are at risk of being food insecure.

Locally, 13.6% of Escambia County is food insecure. Argos’ Edible Campus aim to help address this problem through increasing awareness of this issue while also planting more edible plants throughout the UWF campus.