US (AL): Auburn University teaching garden plans finalize
As part of the University's master plan, the "Field Lab No. 1" will enhance the Old Rotation by growing crops, trees, turf grasses and ornamentals that agriculture students will tend to and cultivate.
"This is an area that several departments in the college have used for various instructional activities," said Dave Williams, professor of horticulture and garden steering committee chair. "What we want to do is just give it more organization, give it a little bit more functionality, make it look good and make it an element that, yes, while still using it as a teaching space, we can share with the community."
When the new garden is fully completed, the workable land will be divided into field plots including teaching orchards, field crops, an ornamentals maze and shade garden, fruit and vegetable crops and turfgrass.
There will also be permanent structures built including teaching pavilions and greenhouses that will provide crops for tiger dining, according to Williams.
Williams hopes that in the end the garden, open to the public when not being used for classes, will be a part of a "bridge of activity" that stretches throughout Auburn.
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