Campus Crops is an urban agriculture initiative located at McGill’s downtown campus, with gardens located behind the McGill School of Environment building, Burnside Hall, and the É«½ç°É Daycare.
As a student-led collective, our goal is to grow food on campus and provide students and community members with space and opportunities to learn direct, hands-on farming skills. Through our activities and workshops, we seek to promote discussion of food politics and food security and to put our work into context within the global food crisis.
By repurposing neglected or underutilized urban spaces, we hope to create alternative food systems that incorporate agroecological practices to work with the land to regenerate soil and local ecosystems, and to directly serve our students and community members who rely on these spaces.
Additionally, we hope that our work is a step towards decentralizing and de-institutionalizing skills that have been monopolized by the capitalist food system. We strive to empower members with skills through popular education, knowledge sharing and gettin’ dirtyyy.
For more information or to explore opportunities to get involved, please contact us at campuscrops@ssmu.ca