Is this project an undergraduate, graduate, or faculty project?
Undergraduate
Project Type
group
Campus
Daytona Beach
Authors' Class Standing
Aliyha Aviles, Sophomore Brianna Alexander, Sophomore
Lead Presenter's Name
Aliyha Aviles
Faculty Mentor Name
Dr. Taylor Mitchell
Abstract
Community gardens on college campuses provide numerous benefits for the surrounding community. One successful local garden is the Derbyshire Place community garden located in Daytona Beach. The garden has improved the physical wellness of residents through increased access to fruits and vegetables with Food stamps-eligible flea markets and rentable garden beds for $25 per year. The garden also provides opportunities for outdoor exercise, and improving the community relations and interactions between groups of varying demographic backgrounds. We wish to do the same here at the Daytona Campus and through this research project we seek the encouraged support, approval, development and establishment of an on-campus garden for the betterment of the campus community. If approved, the overall wellbeing of the campus community would be increased as noted in the local community and at other institutions. The ideal location of the garden would be on top of the roof next to the Starbucks. Our plan is to inform members of the community about the benefits of a community garden through a short video dicussing benefit of a community garden. The video would walk the viewer through the Derbyshire community garden and showcase the provided rescores and opportunities provided. Before posing an open-formatted question of how a similar garden on campus could benefit students and faculty followed by a few concept designs of the community garden on campus. All in order to encourage and promote discussion and support of a on-campus community garden. After the viewer watches the video, we intend to have them complete a survey that would provide valuable data for support and tweaking of the final design of the garden. The survey will utilize closed-ended questions to gather quantitative data such as sample size, demographics and plant preferences. To ensure that the garden is serving the community, additional qualitative data would be collected such as community feedback or idea pertaining to the layout use or layout aesthetic of the garden.
Did this research project receive funding support (Spark, SURF, Research Abroad, Student Internal Grants, Collaborative, Climbing, or Ignite Grants) from the Office of Undergraduate Research?
No
Operation: Eco-Garden
Community gardens on college campuses provide numerous benefits for the surrounding community. One successful local garden is the Derbyshire Place community garden located in Daytona Beach. The garden has improved the physical wellness of residents through increased access to fruits and vegetables with Food stamps-eligible flea markets and rentable garden beds for $25 per year. The garden also provides opportunities for outdoor exercise, and improving the community relations and interactions between groups of varying demographic backgrounds. We wish to do the same here at the Daytona Campus and through this research project we seek the encouraged support, approval, development and establishment of an on-campus garden for the betterment of the campus community. If approved, the overall wellbeing of the campus community would be increased as noted in the local community and at other institutions. The ideal location of the garden would be on top of the roof next to the Starbucks. Our plan is to inform members of the community about the benefits of a community garden through a short video dicussing benefit of a community garden. The video would walk the viewer through the Derbyshire community garden and showcase the provided rescores and opportunities provided. Before posing an open-formatted question of how a similar garden on campus could benefit students and faculty followed by a few concept designs of the community garden on campus. All in order to encourage and promote discussion and support of a on-campus community garden. After the viewer watches the video, we intend to have them complete a survey that would provide valuable data for support and tweaking of the final design of the garden. The survey will utilize closed-ended questions to gather quantitative data such as sample size, demographics and plant preferences. To ensure that the garden is serving the community, additional qualitative data would be collected such as community feedback or idea pertaining to the layout use or layout aesthetic of the garden.