Unity’s (College) gardens growing greener, closer to home (Maine)

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http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/50411.html

UNITY, Maine — When students at Unity College sit down to a school-provided meal, they can be assured that an entire system of management is in place to provide meals created mostly from local ingredients.

They also can take a sustainable agriculture course, work on the college farm or take a shift volunteering in the college’s community garden.

Just decades after agriculture nearly disappeared from many college campuses, it is taking center stage at Unity College.

Not only are administrators buying from a dozen local farms and a Maine cooperative, they are constructing their own farm for future use as a food source and a teaching tool, installing sustainable agriculture courses and even proposing a children’s zoo.

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