The Community Farm Website is undergoing
redesign.
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If you previously requested a plot
at the community farm, please be aware you will soon be contacted
by a farm volunteer who will help you select a plot and introduce
you to the garden.
There is currently a waiting list to receive a plot at the
community farm. Please check back to this site in the future.
We hope to add a feature wherein you can add your name to
a waiting list to be notified when a plot becomes available.
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About the Farm
The basis for the present day Stanford Community Farm harkens
to the time of Jane and Leland Stanford and their vision for Stanford
University. In the words they used to established their university,
the Stanfords decreed:
"[The] Trustees...shall have power,
and it shall be their duty...[to] maintain on the Palo Alto Estate
a farm for instruction in Agriculture and all its branches."
The Founding Grant with
Amendments, Legislation, and Court Decrees, November 11, 1885, Published
by the University 1987, p. 5, 6.
Today, the Stanford Community Farm is a Stanford faculty, staff,
student, and alumni operated organic garden located on the Stanford
campus that exists to educate the Stanford community about organic
gardening techniques and to provide an outlet for recreational gardening.
The Stanford Community Farm sees, as one of its goals, the fulfillment
of the wish of Jane and Leland Stanford that there be a farm and
instruction in agriculture at their university.
Located on the west side of campus, the one-acre farm includes
a large fruit orchard, numerous communally-managed student plots,
and many individual plots maintained by the Farm's various members.
Anyone is welcome to visit the farm, and if you study or work
at Stanford, you are welcome to grow food and flowers with us! Books
on organic gardening are available onsite, and we will also be offering
community workshops on organic gardening and farming throughout
the year.
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