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November 19-20, 2011
The Student Environmental Alliance teamed up with Habitat for Humanity to build boxes for raised garden beds using salvaged wood pallets. The garden promotes campus sustainability and presents an opportunity for collaboration between Washington College and the Chestertown community.
Enlarge photos by Shane Brill '03 and Dylan Grimes '19 (prospective).
Amanda Anastasia '13 and Amanda Pruzinsky '12 begin the process of dismantling pallets for salvaged lumber.
Ellen Huffman '13 uses measurements of the alloted garden space to draft a map to scale of the area.
Wielding a mallet and crowbar, Amanda Anastasia '13 and Amanda Pruzinsky '12 make progress dismantling.
Amanda Pruzinsky '12 and Amanda Anastasia '13 reach a two-by-four that can be used as bracing for the boxes.
Kelsey Hallowell '12 saws a board to the correct length as Amanda Pruzinsky '12 stabilizes it. In the background, Andrew Martz '12 relocates the next pallet to dismantle.
Jeff Sullivan '14 uses a mallet with a hammer to free nails from the wood.
Amanda Anastasia '13, Amanda Pruzinsky '12, and Kelsey Hallowell '12 begin construction on the first garden box.
Jeff Sullivan '14, Matt Streeter '13, Kathy Thornton '13, Amanda Pruzinsky '12, Kelsey Hallowell '12, and Amanda Anastasia '13 step inside the first completed box for a photo.
To make the most of the available salvaged lumber, Kelsey Hallowell '12, Amanda Anastasia '13, and Amanda Pruzinsky '12 designed a triangular raised bed.
Chestertown-based alumni John Beck '05 and Carol Landis Beck '06 came to support the project and construct a box together.
Habitat for Humanity advisor Maria Rose Hynson '15 supplied tools and expertise in constructing boxes.
The Western Shore dorms are a short walk from the garden, with an area that might cleared for growing more edible plants.
This rendering of the garden shows the relation of the space to the Office of International Programs, an adjacent garage, and uncleared marginal land that might be used for expansion. Download PDF.