Student Garden Strengthens Tie With Community Through Food Bank Donation (Sonoma State University)

(Source: Sonoma State University) There's been a student-tended garden at Sonoma State for over 20 years, says Environmental Studies and Planning professor Rocky Rohwedder, but it was only this year that the vegetables started being put to the best use possible: feeding low-income families. The garden, farmed by students and volunteers, is actually an ENSP class called agro-ecology taught by Karen Tillinghast. In just three months this year, the garden has generated over 1,000 pounds of food for Neighbors Organized Against Hunger (NOAH), Rohnert Park's food bank. Rohwedder says students get to se the food they've worked hard to grow and pick actually get picked up by people who...