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Victory Garden Plan Paper

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This research paper is my plan for developing a modern and highly sustainable Victory Garden here at UCLA. My plan includes year-long crop recommendations for our mediterranean climate that will optimize nutrition output for the surrounding community and students. The three main parts to my Victory Garden design are: minimizing water use through drip irrigation, using organic practices to promote crop and soil fertility, and using sustainable practices to lessen the food desert in our community. I strongly believe that implementing my Victory Garden plan can be highly significant to our campus and community as the individuals involved can create a local food source without straining environmental resources through sustainable practices. Being given a 4 by 4 meter garden to design, creating a vertical garden seemed more promising and sustainable than having only a few rows of raised beds. Utilizing a vertical garden allows us to …show more content…

A food desert is defined as an area where it’s difficult to buy affordable, nutritious food due to the lack of available healthy food sources (Ver Ploeg, 2010). By creating the Victory Garden, we are making nutritious food available to the students on our campus and the neighborhood, thus lessening the burden of the Los Angeles food desert. According to the researcher Michael Ver Ploeg who studied food deserts and food availability, he thinks that some areas will not see change unless they grow community gardens or find local vendors that they can afford (Ver Ploeg, 2010). I strongly agree with this statement as I believe the creating Victory Garden will bring an influx of healthy foods to this community, while teaching people how to sustainably grow their own food (Irvine,

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