“My Day at the FGCU Campus”
Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) offers many things besides just schooling. They offer a sustainable way of life and allow its students to become one with nature. Some highlights within the campus are a wide variety of ecosystems including the Food Forest, nature trails, and lakes.
My favorite sustainable feature that FGCU offers is the Food Forest. As soon as you enter the campus it is off to the right and located within a woodsy area. At first sight all you see is a trailer that has been painted with many bright colors and reads Food Forest. Once you pass the writing you can really see the beauty within. There is all different types of vegetation that not only provide a better environment but allow …show more content…
It had medium size brown fruit growing upon it. Although I have never tried Nispero, it did look edible. This plant originates in Southern Mexico and Central America. It is in the Sapotaceae family and only provides its fruit from May to September given it has not exceeded the cold tolerance of 26F.
In my opinion I feel the Food Forest located at FGCU provides an ecological way to help sustain the environment by providing more oxygen and planting more trees to provide edible delights. It also provides shelter and shade for native insects and animals. This was only one example of the sustainability that I found FGCU holds for our environment.
When you arrive at the FGCU campus you can see the natural landscaping like that of the Food Forest. There is a variety of plants and trees that surround lakes and classrooms. A total of 350 acres out of the 760 acres that are designated to preserve the wetlands and watershed. Beautiful lakes and ponds are throughout the campus as well. One of which I watch a turtle swam freely. All the ponds and lakes interconnect which not only provides a watershed for the campus but provides habitat for the animals that roam the …show more content…
This was my favorite because it was the driest of the whole nature trail. There was moss hanging from an Oak tree. The tree seemed to be within both the dry and wetland. I found a piece spider plant growing upon a branch on the ground below. It also seemed to need little water in order to survive. Fungi was found growing along the log leading the path of the nature trail. This Fungi seemed to like the damp low level environment it was growing in. I even came upon this peeled upon Melaleuca tree. They seem to be abundant in the trail in low hydroperiod levels and they are dispersed due to the twenty million seeds it produces and sheds per tree. This tree has very distinctive black and white coloration and has a paper
Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) offers many things besides just schooling. They offer a sustainable way of life and allow its students to become one with nature. Some highlights within the campus are a wide variety of ecosystems including the Food Forest, nature trails, and lakes.
My favorite sustainable feature that FGCU offers is the Food Forest. As soon as you enter the campus it is off to the right and located within a woodsy area. At first sight all you see is a trailer that has been painted with many bright colors and reads Food Forest. Once you pass the writing you can really see the beauty within. There is all different types of vegetation that not only provide a better environment but allow …show more content…
It had medium size brown fruit growing upon it. Although I have never tried Nispero, it did look edible. This plant originates in Southern Mexico and Central America. It is in the Sapotaceae family and only provides its fruit from May to September given it has not exceeded the cold tolerance of 26F.
In my opinion I feel the Food Forest located at FGCU provides an ecological way to help sustain the environment by providing more oxygen and planting more trees to provide edible delights. It also provides shelter and shade for native insects and animals. This was only one example of the sustainability that I found FGCU holds for our environment.
When you arrive at the FGCU campus you can see the natural landscaping like that of the Food Forest. There is a variety of plants and trees that surround lakes and classrooms. A total of 350 acres out of the 760 acres that are designated to preserve the wetlands and watershed. Beautiful lakes and ponds are throughout the campus as well. One of which I watch a turtle swam freely. All the ponds and lakes interconnect which not only provides a watershed for the campus but provides habitat for the animals that roam the …show more content…
This was my favorite because it was the driest of the whole nature trail. There was moss hanging from an Oak tree. The tree seemed to be within both the dry and wetland. I found a piece spider plant growing upon a branch on the ground below. It also seemed to need little water in order to survive. Fungi was found growing along the log leading the path of the nature trail. This Fungi seemed to like the damp low level environment it was growing in. I even came upon this peeled upon Melaleuca tree. They seem to be abundant in the trail in low hydroperiod levels and they are dispersed due to the twenty million seeds it produces and sheds per tree. This tree has very distinctive black and white coloration and has a paper