Spring arrived on campus with a splash at the Spring Equinox Celebration and Earth Month Kickoff in the Campus Garden. On March 30, over 200 students, faculty, staff, and families joined the Office of Sustainability and 15 tabling organizations for a day full of upcycled crafting, plant-forward food, music and fun.
Participants toured the Campus Garden, meeting the garden’s three-week-old chicks and visiting with the full-grown chickens brought by Danish Khan, a Senior Controller with Deacon Dining.
Visitors experienced hands-on learning with animals nurtured by former Champion of Change award winners, Angela King and David Link. King, who runs Enno Farms, tabled at this event with her sheep named Molly to show how wool gets transformed into yarn, dryer balls, and other goods, which were available for purchase. Link, owner of Hidden Meadows beekeeping, offered honey samples from bees that reside part of the year in the Campus Garden. Both King and Link provided students with a tactile experience to learn more about our food and clothing systems.
Campus organizations like Campus Kitchen, ZSR Library, the Old Gold & Black, WakerSpace– and even off-campus groups like The Art SHAC– hosted tables with unique upcycling activities. Activities ranged from mixing coffee grounds and sugar to create body scrubs, crafting bookmarks out of art scraps, creating mobiles with tree branches, and much more. Through each activity, participants learned how to bring new life to used items.
Wake Radio DJed the event to keep spirits high, and despite the cloudy weather there was a steady crowd of people. You can view the gallery from the event here and join Wake Forest’s community in celebrating Earth Month all month long by checking out the robust calendar of events organized by the Office of Sustainability and other campus partners.