The
Federal Courthouse Garden (CHG) is a food garden on the highly visible two
acre site lying due east of the new Federal Courthouse. It is a collaboration
between the City of Eugene, Lane County, the State of Oregon and the Federal
Government. The site is a shallowly scooped out vacant lot with only a small
building, the old Agripac Cannery office, on the southwest corner. As this land’s disposition is uncertain, but
some years away, the City has leased the land to the university and approved
the building of a temporary garden for two principal purposes: as a
teaching/skills building vegetable garden for individuals “in-transition”
within the criminal justice system, and, as a food producing resource lab for
community service endeavors of University of Oregon. The focus of the CHG is learning through
doing, the creation of a productive garden in true hands-on fashion. The food
grown in the garden will be distributed to the participants and to currently
underserved non-profit groups.
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