About the Tutorial
The New College Gardening Tutorial is an opportunity for students to claim hands on experience with getting their hands dirty. It offers a chance to learn how to grow food, an empowering and enriching experience for both plant and human. This blog records the movements of the 2016 fall class, led by it's TA- Jay McWilliams.
The Old Caples' gardens are ever-growing. Today, it's hard to miss the place with an elongated annual bed, a lusher than ever perennial bed, bee bombs beautifying the Native-Medicinal-Butterfly garden and, last but far from least, New College's very own food forest.
But in the early 90's and backwards, the garden stumbled as it switched from hand to hand. Jono Miller, retired head of Environmental Studies, can be credited with the steadying of community gardens in Caples for the first time in 1994. From here on, aside from a bump in the road every blue moon, the New College gardening tutorial became a steady tradition, now offered every semester.