Calgary students growing food to help other students [Video]

Science students at the University of Calgary use their roof top greenhouse to conduct all kinds of projects and had a little extra space that wasn’t being used. so some of them came up with the idea of growing food for the campus food bank.

“It was sort of a collaboration between a few people,” said Allison Guthrie, grad student. “But I was a big part of starting it, the Dean definitely was very supportive right from the very beginning, encouraged me and pointed out ways that we could do it.”

Kristin Baetz, the dean of science, says when students have initiatives that it has a big impact in the community.

“We’re a research intensive institution,” she said. “We do amazing research in this greenhouse, game changing, especially on crops and how are we making them water resistant, pest resistant for Alberta.”

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