SUU Community Gardens

About

The SUU Community Gardens is a program focused on teaching and supporting small and sustainable agriculture and horticulture by organizing students, faculty, and community volunteers.

Come volunteer currently every Monday at 7 PM in the Community Garden and Wednesday at 7 PM in the HOPE Garden.

Community Garden

Located at 296 S 500 W, Cedar City, UT 84720. Established in 2020 by the SUU Sustainability Club with partnership with SUU Facilities. This space is where it all started. In this space we focus on education, experimentation, composting, plant breeding, seed collection, and creating a communal outdoor space.

Composting

Currently closed to dumping. We use the Berkeley Method of hot compost by taking fresh green (nitrogen rich) material from SUU Dining, pre-consumer food scraps, brown (carbon rich) material of leaves gathered from around campus by facilities that would otherwise go to the dump and manure taken from the SUU farm.

In FY23 we collected and composted 2.8 tons or 5,600 lbs of food scraps from the kitchen.

All compost is currently then used in the garden spaces.

HOPE Garden

Starting in 2024 in partnership with the Community Engagement Center we have started a second garden space near the University Campus Services more focused on food production. As the part of the partnership all food produced in this Garden will be going to the SUU HOPE Pantry to Help Our People Eat (HOPE).