NAU Students for Sustainable Living & Urban Gardening (SSLUG)

The SSLUG Garden aims to engage students and the broader community in sustainable living and urban gardening as a tool for transformative climate action. Organic urban gardening is an essential part of climate action that reduces transportation emissions, builds topsoil, reduces food waste through composting, adapts seeds to local climate variability, and overall engages people in their ability to produce food for themselves and their communities. We are a club that is centered around community building as a way of approaching the climate crisis through mutual aid networks. The SSLUG Garden operates in a mutual aid framework by having conversations about our social and ecological crises and ways to directly engage with these crises while also sharing in the garden harvests and teaching about preparing food directly from the garden. Updates, events, and volunteer hours are posted on our Instagram! @nausslug The best way to contact us is through an Instagram DM, or by emailing our garden coordinator Paige (pcy6@nau.edu).

Volunteers can join weekly hands-on work sessions in the garden, educational workshops, and community building events.