Hoya Harvest Festival
The annual Hoya Harvest Festival is a celebration of the earth and the diversity of ways the Georgetown community is growing to nurture it. The fair features environment and sustainability initiatives across campus, fall-themed activities, reuse crafts and more.
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The Earth Commons hosted the first Hoya Harvest Festival on October 13th, 2022, featuring food and drinks, music, art, crafts, and all things fall. Attendees carved pumpkins, turn old t-shirts into tote bags, and learned about upcoming environment and sustainability initiatives around campus. A live jellyfish tank brought by new Earth Commons faculty celebrated the breadth and diversity of research and scholarship at Georgetown.
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The Earth Commons proudly announced the launch of the Hoya Harvest Garden, a new regenerative vegetable garden on Regents 4th Floor Patio. Harvest begins in Spring 2023 for the pilot of this farming space dedicated to creating a sense of shared-responsibility around sustainable food systems by integrating farming spaces into the campus, generating food for the community, hands-on learning experiences, and dialogue around human impacts and food production.
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Activities
- Food & Drinks
- Pumpkin carving and contest with Outdoor Education
- Jellyfish Display by Marine Biologist Dr. Rebecca Helm
- Self Guided Environmental Graffiti Exhibit by Alisa Singer
- Hoya Harvest Garden Launch by The Earth Commons
- Upcycling workshop by the Makers Hub
- T-shirts to totebags crafts with GREEN
- Slow Food table and goodies
- Georgetown Undergraduate Environmental Health Collaborative
- Cura Terra
- Well Fed Market App
- …and much more!
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