Editor’s Note: Featured photo by Etta Berry
They may not be there for long, but on any given day free fall vegetables may be available in the biology department outside Biology Department Chair Kristin Bingham’s office.
They are grown in the South Plains College garden. When they’re harvested, they appear inside a bushel basket on a table outside Bingham’s door.
“We’ve pulled out onions and garlic, some tomatoes,” she says “which will only be here until the first really heavy freeze. And then they won’t be good anymore.”
Bingham says it’s almost the end of the growing season.
Back in early September, photography students found pears ready to be picked in the garden.
“We’ve had tremendous success with our apple and pear harvest and giving that away,” she says, “which has been so nice.”
In September, Bingham said they’d already harvested 2.5 lbs. of onions and shallots, and 3.5 lbs. of garlic.
But there’s more now, at least until it freezes.
Bingham says if you’re in the biology department, anyone is welcome to stop by and check the basket to see what’s there.
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