UNO Community Gardens

SustainUNO winterizes "Durango's Soil Project"

SustainUNO winterizes the gardens

"Durango's Soil Project" is the garden located between the pep-bowl and Allwine. Following the end of our harvest season each year the gardens need to be winterized!

YSEALI Fellows Pose for a Group Photo in front of the housing community gardens

YSEALI Spring 2025 Fellows Volunteer at the Gardens

The UNO Community gardens was so thankful to have amazing support from the spring 2025 YSEALI fellows who were happy to help us weed, plant, and build garden arches in the "Maverick Community Roots" garden near Dodge Campus Housing!

paint, wooden signs, and children helping to create art

Community Garden Sign Painting at Elmwood Earth Day 2025

SustainUNO and the community gardens encourage the community to get involved with the campus gardens. This year at the Elmwood Earth Day, we encouraged children to come paint a fruit, vegetable, or flower sign to display in our gardens! We are so excited to make the gardens more colorful this year!

5 girls painting small wooden signs in the gardens, the signs show fruits or vegetables that will be grown

Get Creative At The Gardens

Throughout the year SustainUNO works to make the garden bigger and better. This year, we are adding fun signs to designate what plants are what in the gardens. These handcrafted signs come from our students and help from the community!

a girl used watering can in the UNO greenhouse to help start seedlings that have just been planted

The Community Gardens get a head start in 2025!!

This year, SustainUNO and the community gardens were able to collaborate with the UNO Greenhouse to get a head start on our seeds. We worked to plant and water seeds all spring so plants were ready to go in the ground in May. A big thanks to all our seedling caretakers!

Durango's Advancement and Support Hub, Maverick Food Pantry, and SustainUNO are dedicated to bringing our campus community fresh, healthy produce during the growing season. Our community gardens are located next to the Pepbowl and on the Dodge Campus Housing grounds, and upkeep for these is thanks to our amazing volunteers from all three collaborative groups.

If you are interested in working in the dirt, planning, or just interested in all-around working with the community gardens, click the button down below to sign up to volunteer or join SustainUNO!