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10/08/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 10/08/2025 09:58
Growing new partnerships
Growing new partnerships
Article by Kaitlyn Diehl Photos by Kathy F. Atkinson and Kaitlyn Diehl and courtesy of Elizabeth O'Conner and Al Mukhtar Al Barwani October 08, 2025
ELI garden harvests campus, community collaboration
Passing by the historic English Language Institute (ELI) building on West Main Street, you would never know there is a treasure trove of vegetables ready to be picked and flowers in bloom within a garden just to the left of the building. Thanks to the initiative of a University of Delaware sophomore and partnerships across UD and the Newark community, the long-forgotten garden has a new life.
The garden flourished for the first time in 2010 as a partnership between the ELI and the Food and Garden Policy Committee graduate student organization (FGPC), and was active until 2017 as a service learning and community garden, where ELI and UD students, faculty and alumni came together for a range of activities.
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