Students and staff alike came to the Reid Greenhouse and Carver Hall to enjoy the annual Earth Day Plant Sale and free salad bar, featuring a wide selection of plants grown by CAES students in Specialty Crops and Plant Propagation classes. The event raises funds for the Student Farm. Free pick-your-own salads, grown in the nearby raised beds, were available with dressing and croutons provided. Professor Odile Huchette, who leads the project, said the free salad day has been going on for eight years, and the plant sale was added during the COVID pandemic. As the students grow and share the various plants, Huchette says, it creates the opportunity to tie together education and community service.
News and Notes: August 2023
Shewana McSwain, coordinator of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-ED) and the Interim coordinator for the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP), both in Cooperative Extension, has won the Excellence in Extension Award in the Family and Consumer Sciences category at the Program Leaders Network Conference in Orlando Florida.