UNC’s campus is about to get a lot more green, and tasty.
The Edible Campus project aims to plant medicinal, edible, and native plants to heavily trafficked areas of campus to give students “that tangible and palpable idea of where what they’re eating comes from,” said student Rebecca Chaisson.
The project started by University Chancellor Fellow Emily Auerbach will cost between an estimated $80,000 and $200,000, paid for with a mix of public and private money, reported The Daily Tar Heel.
Along with the plants and the trees, there will be signs and educational events to tie in the project with its purpose of getting people to care about where their food comes from.
Agriculture is so separated from everyday life because it’s big farms,” Chaisson, a student member of the student government’s Environmental Affairs Committee said. “This is integrating it into everyday routine. Food is integrated into everyday routine, so where that food comes from should be as well.”
Eventually the project hopes to eventually partner with the CarolinaGo app to keep students up to date with the status of the plants as they ripen.
It looks like the typical campus meal plan just got a whole lot greener.
