Community Garden
The Wingate Community & Adopt-a-Bed Program
The Wingate Community Garden serves as a shared area where students, faculty, staff, and community members can come together to cultivate and harvest food.
How do I adopt a bed?
Our Adopt-A-Bed Program offers both campus community members the opportunity to "adopt" raised beds. Participants receive necessary supplies and guidance through partnerships with NC Cooperative Extension and Master Gardeners in training.
Sponsorships
Thank you to our sponsors and supporters, without whom the Community Garden wouldn't exist:
- Town of Wingate
- NC Cooperative Extension
- Master Gardeners
- American Heart Association
- Carolina Farm Credit
- NC Resourceful Communities
- WU Alumni
- Several non-profits and local churches!
Agricultural Immersion Experience
Offers elementary school students the opportunity to experience many different aspects of agriculture and food systems including nutrition, careers, health, food waste, green energy, food science, farming, water systems.
Partners: NC State Cooperative Extension; Natural Resource Conservation Services; DabHar farms; Chartwells; ALIEN; Biology Club; Wingate Biology Department; School of Pharmacy; Wingate Athletics; East Union Middle School; Heart for Monroe; Food Council of Union County
AmeriCorp VISTA Service
Since 2019 we have been awarded a year-long AmeriCorp VISTA that focuses on food insecurity and hunger. Our first HungerCorp VISTA was Sarah Busby, followed by Hannah Fraser and then Neely Griggs.