Food and Hunger Initiatives
Victor E. Garden
The goal of the Victor E. Garden is to provide a campus community garden experience to enhance gardening information and skill and to provide healthy produce for members of the campus community. While we do make produce from the garden available to campus community members through the Tiger Pantry, you do not need to be food insecure to join this campus community garden project. All students, faculty, staff, and even alumni are welcome to volunteer at the campus community garden.
The garden is located just east and downhill of the Robbins Center. The garden schedules regular work sessions during planting and harvesting seasons.
Tiger Pantry
The goal of the Tiger Pantry is to provide an easy, safe, supportive and educational environment in which students, faculty and staff can readily access healthy food as well as nutrition information.
The Tiger Pantry is located on the first floor of the Memorial Union in the Chestnut Room. The space is available to drop off as well as pick up food, is a distribution point for garden produce for secure as well as food insecure patrons.
The pantry is well-stocked with canned and packaged foods, and a small supply of meats. The pantry is a distribution point for Victor E. Garden produce, both fresh and frozen. The Tiger Pantry also stocks a small supply of toiletry items such as shampoo and soap, and some cleaning supplies.
Each Friday during the Fall and Spring semesters the Tiger Pantry hosts Fresh Food Friday, where we make fresh foods such as fruits, vegetables, or cheese sticks available for the campus community (while supplies last). The Tiger Pantry also hosts special events in the pantry such as Holiday events (Thanksgiving and Independence Day), open houses, etc…. Watch for advertisements for these special events!
Interested in donating to the pantry?
- We have a shopping cart just outside the Tiger Pantry where you can leave small donations. Please do not place donations on the shelves. We inventory the items and, as a result, we need to process them before placing them on the shelves.
- If you have larger donations, have foods that require refrigeration or freezing that you would like to donate, or wish to coordinate a food drive. Please contact Peter Tramel at phtramel@fhsu.edu
Thanks for Your Support!
FHSU thanks the Kansas Health Foundation for its 2014-16 Healthy Living Grant. This generous grant made possible much of the infrastructure for the Victor E. Garden and Tiger Pantry.
Many thanks, too, to FHSU administration and the Physical Plant for its tremendous support and to the FHSU Student Government Association for Educational Opportunity Grants and other funding that has supported the work of these two important projects. And, finally, thanks to all the faculty, staff and students whose vision and labor have made the Food and Hunger Initiatives possible.
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