Stony Brook University’s Community Garden Club had a busy spring semester prepping garden plots, starting seedlings, and adopting a sun safety policy with CPiA! The student-led garden consists of five plots behind the university’s Student Activities Center, as well as several other plots sprouting up around campus. Garden club members meet regularly to tend to the plots, and spend lots of time in the sun doing so.
Getting the right amount of sunlight to your plants is a challenge for any gardener, but so is protecting yourself from the sun’s harmful UV rays. Garden club members learned this and more sun safe gardening tips when CPiA joined an April meetup for a sun safe gardening workshop. 25 student members were educated about protecting their skin while gardening and other outdoor activities, and received sunscreen, UV sunglasses, and wide-brimmed hats! Gardeners will receive these items each semester, thanks to the garden club’s new sun safety policy.
We congratulate the SBU Community Garden Club on their new sun safety policy and thank them for taking action against skin cancer with CPiA!
Learn more about the SBU Community Garden Club on Instagram at @sbucommunitygarden