https://www.evergreen.edu/organic-farm
Before the Break: The Organic Farm is a working small-scale USDA-Certified farm and a learning laboratory for students. The Organic Farm currently produces: fruits, vegetables, eggs, chickens, flowers, herbs, and plant-starts. In recent years, it has housed several beehives. It is 5 acres of developed land in the northwest area of the Evergreen Campus, which includes a Farmhouse, 3 acres of fields and orchards, a food forest, greenhouses, a wash station, a composting building, and several outbuildings.
The lab spaces are for developing scientific, cultural, and sensory understanding of our food systems. The facility is equipped for hands-on cooking and lab activities, value-added food production. Additionally, work done in the lab can affect things like texture of food, flavor and appearance. The lab also researches things that affect agricultural factors like fungi, insects and soil.
This lab is also supplied with microscopes, pH meters, refractometers, as wells as induction cooktops and a commercial convention oven.
The building is sited to protect solar access for existing gardens, built with high-efficiency practices to reduce energy use.
Since Then: Since the plant life in the surrounding wooded area had seemed to mutate rapidly and develop more facets, it’s natural to assume that some of the community grown plants have also been effected and there have been some changes. (see: natural plants around evergreen/ Evergreen forest: plants.)
There are people that you can speak to who manage the Organic farm and will tell you about the new and mutated plants around the farm! Namely; what plants you shouldn’t walk past too slowly, which ones are safe to eat, which ones are probably safe to eat (and if you don’t mind us watching you for the next 24 hours just in case), which ones to take to the kitchen/greenery for prep, and which ones to ignore entirely.
The bees and chickens around the place are their mostly normal selves! The chickens can talk to you however, and they’ll tell you about many non-important things with a ton of strangely specific plant facts too.
The greenhouses seem to halve the ability of growing during the day but speed things up during the night? Many greenhouse workers are sleeping during the day instead of the night anyway…