News Category: microfarm

On April 27, 2021, a small group of audience members found their seats, actors carried out their pre-show rituals and technicians prepped their starting cues as they waited for the curtains to rise on the UTNT (UT New Theatre) production of Community Garden. The Campus Environmental Center Microfarm – Whitaker Courts, located North of UT campus, provided fertile ground for a developing play set in a lush garden environment. 

The Campus Environmental Center and the Green Fund provided food and financial support for food insecure students during the COVID-19 crisis.

The MicroFarm, UT Austin’s first and only entirely student-run urban farm, has moved to a new location and doubled in size. 

Students from the UT Microfarm will sell produce on a weekly basis for the first time this year.

The microfarm, a student-run project focused on producing locally grown food using sustainable farming techniques, will sell fresh produce on the West Mall from 3 to 5 p.m. every Monday starting Jan. 24 in an effort to connect more students with its produce. This is the first year the farm has committed to weekly food stands instead of stands three or four times a semester.

The project, a feature of the Campus Environmental Center, is a student organization in the Office of Sustainability started in 2012.