In March 26, 2009, a small group of faculty, staff and friends (including Eva Csuhai and Anthony Vital, project initiators) began to dig. Together they planted a young quince tree.
On April 2, 2009, we held the garden's first organizational meeting. At the second, we set ourselves up with our constitution, filling the leadership positions.
During May Term 2009, Dr. Csuhai ran her interdisciplinary course, The Garden of Transylvania, in which students do the basic work needed to establish an urban community garden and engage in exploring the culture of gardens.
Here is the link to the story of our first year.
One important related development took place away from campus. First Lady Jane Beshear unveiled the Governor's Garden in Frankfort on July 2. This garden too is flourishing, as the Lexington Herald-Leader reported not long after. (Kim Rodgers, the story's writer, is a Transy English Major, interning at the Herald-Leader over the summer.)
With our Garden at Transy we join the community garden movement in Lexington. An article in the Herald-Leader (July 25, 2009) looks at some of Lexington's gardens - and advertises the 3rd annual Community Garden Tour, organized by Jim Embry of Lexington's Sustainable Communities Network. And, thanks to Eva Csuhai, we have spread the word of our garden among the national community garden movement. On August 6-9, Dr. Csuhai attended the American Community Garden Association Conference in Columbus, Ohio, where she presented a poster describing the establishment of this garden of ours, a garden on an urban, liberal arts college campus.
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