Proposal Date
27-5-2016 12:00 AM
Document Type
Funded Project Report
Project Summary
Greencycling at the Botanical Garden: A living buffer and composting solution to an ever-growing problem
Carolyn Altman, Botanical Gardens of the Coastal Plain ($8,800)
Greencycling at the Garden created a living border around most of the 11-acre Garden. The plants in this border added to the Garden’s collections and helped address the air, noise and water pollution created by the busy Fair Road and Georgia Avenue Corridors. The creation and maintenance of this border produced more leaves and limbs than the Garden soil can absorb, so the project also included a request for a dump trailer, which was used to haul the ongoing debris and, in the years following, tons of daily leaves and limbs from the entire Garden to Physical Plant. Physical Plant has agreed to grind the debris into much-needed mulch, thereby returning a huge volume of plant material to Georgia Southern University soil.
Unit or Academic Department
Botanic Garden at Georgia Southern University
Amount Granted
$8,800
Amount Spent
$8,800
Greencycling at the Botanical Garden: A living buffer and composting solution to an ever-growing problem
Greencycling at the Botanical Garden: A living buffer and composting solution to an ever-growing problem
Carolyn Altman, Botanical Gardens of the Coastal Plain ($8,800)
Greencycling at the Garden created a living border around most of the 11-acre Garden. The plants in this border added to the Garden’s collections and helped address the air, noise and water pollution created by the busy Fair Road and Georgia Avenue Corridors. The creation and maintenance of this border produced more leaves and limbs than the Garden soil can absorb, so the project also included a request for a dump trailer, which was used to haul the ongoing debris and, in the years following, tons of daily leaves and limbs from the entire Garden to Physical Plant. Physical Plant has agreed to grind the debris into much-needed mulch, thereby returning a huge volume of plant material to Georgia Southern University soil.
