Food Forest

A hands-on gardening and sustainability event at Florida Gulf Coast University's Food Forest gave students a chance to reconnect with the land and imparted to them essential permaculture practices.Officially titled the FGCU Food Forest Maintenance & Gardening Event, it was sponsored by the FGCU Food Forest and the Environmental Sustainability Office.

A piano among pine trees—and musicians playing duets with chirping birds. That’s the vision a group of students at Florida Gulf Coast University has to share their musical talent with others and honor our environment at the same time. The Music Forest was created by Fernando López Flores, a senior at FGCU majoring in piano performance.

A Southwest Florida group focused on spreading agricultural awareness and education around the globe is building a "global garden" test bed as part of its…

A successful community garden in Pine Manor will now have a food forest next door, an expansion of a community program that's already been linked with…