SCU's 1/2 acre organic garden serves as a campus space for course research, service learning, and sustainable food production. Operating within the Center for Sustainability, the Forge Garden provides a living laboratory for exploration of environmental impacts and social justice surrounding the food system.
The retaining wall was designed to resist the lateral pressure of the soil behind it and allow for a change in soil elevation to increase planting surfaces...
The purpose of the project was to investigate if a human can power a wood chipper by solely using mechanical systems...
The students updated the previously created water collection system by increasing water storage capacity and increasing the collection speed by increasing the system’s water pressure...
The old Aquaponics Systems in the Forge Garden does not contain educational components, grow food, and retain water efficiently...
The purpose of the project is to create a vertical planting structure for strawberries in order to allow room for other plants...
The purpose of this project is to provide the Forge Garden with a design that will keep chickens in or out of the garden bed when necessary...
To automate the tour-process and save labor costs, the students created a self-guided tour of the Forge Garden using QR codes...
The SCU Forge Garden called for a product that will exhibit sustainable cooking technology for their newly constructed sustainability kitchen...
This project is a continuation of a project started in Spring 2011. In this redesign, the technical features were addressed.
The students created a chicken automated coop door at the Santa Clara University Forge Garden that will open during the day and close at night.
The students designed a solar charging station for the Forge Garden.
The purpose of the project was to create a rainwater catchment and store the water for later use.
The students designed a new watering system that is efficient and user friendly.
In order to increase the ease of transportation of laptops to underprivileged communities, the students designed and built a laptop carrier.