On the afternoon of Friday, April 30, students gathered in flourishing student-run green spaces nestled between Bay Shore Road and Sarasota Bay to celebrate Arbor Day, soak up the warm weather and practice social interaction. Arbor Day, now a worldwide event of tree planting and…
There are a bounty of farmers markets around Sarasota to choose from, but no other market is as local, or no-cost, as the new initiative in the Caples Garden. Every Sunday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.—weather permitting—all members of the New College community are…
The Organic Gardening Tutorial, which focuses on permaculture and gardening in the Old Caples Garden wrapped up this week with student presentations and a look at the fruits of its labor as the semester draws to an end. “We used heirloom seeds [that are] specifically…
This past Saturday, Gardening Tutorial took a field trip to the headquarters’ of ECHO Inc. in North Fort Myers. ECHO is an organization that aids in world hunger and supports small-scale farming around the world by providing agricultural and “appropriate” technology training to development workers…
