Student Project Krautgarten
29.09.2015
Student Project: Krautgarten
by Adrian Franco, LMU and Environmental Studies Certificate Program Student
Salads, vegetables, herbs, and flowers. Photograph: Adrian Franco.
Which spaces at our university provide the right kind of ground for gardening? How does urban farming work, and is it realistically achievable? How can we develop an understanding of the plants we eat by growing them ourselves? Fruitful discussions as part of the interdisciplinary Environmental Studies Certificate Program inspired us to bring our ideas and thoughts literally into the field. What had started as academic dialogue led a group of us renting and cultivating a plot at Fasanerie, on the outskirts of Munich.
Read more about this project on the RCC´s blog Seeing the Woods