Community Garden
A Community Growing Together
Monthly Market Mondays: Where Community Grows (Even in Winter)
Who says the SCSU Community Garden has to sleep all winter? Join us for Monthly Market Mondays in our new Community Garden Cafe space (ISELF 116), where we're keeping the growing season alive—one jar at a time.
Join us from noon to 2 p.m. and see what the pantry has to offer:
- January 26
- February 23
- March 30
- April 27
Browse our selection of 12-15 varieties of homemade jams, pickled beets, dried herbs, and other garden treasures. Sample a jam (or two—we won't judge). Enjoy a cup of tea. Take home something delicious for yourself or as a gift. And while you're at it, take a breath, connect with your neighbors, and remember what tomatoes taste like.
Every purchase supports the SCSU Community Garden and our 20-year tradition of growing food, building partnerships, and cultivating community right here on campus.
Because even when the garden beds are sleeping, the garden keeps growing—through the people who gather, the flavors we share, and the connections we make.
See you at the market!
Questions? Contact Tracy Ore, Garden Director: teore@stcloudstate.edu; 320-492-6724
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Plant These Seeds
Where Roots Take Hold
A beautiful diversity of living things have been sown and harvested in the St. Cloud State University Community Garden — all because 17 years ago Tracy Ore planted her vision and her knees on a scrubby patch of campus land on Fifth Avenue.
Tracy Ore and the multigenerational team of volunteer gardeners and community partners she has attracted to the garden have grown a rich array of produce, flowers and relationships on what soon became a campus/community intersection for cultivating what Ore calls "environmental and community sustainability."
It's a true community garden, an idea Ore says germinated as a result of one of those conversations that happen when a wonderful mentor comes along to change the trajectory of your life.
