{"id":1,"date":"2016-10-28T15:53:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T15:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/gardenecologylab\/?p=1"},"modified":"2025-10-31T23:07:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T06:07:27","slug":"gardenecology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/gardenecologylab\/2016\/10\/28\/gardenecology\/","title":{"rendered":"We Study Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">We study gardens: the plants, insects, animals, people, decisions and management practices that either improve or degrade a garden&#8217;s ability to promote environmental and human health. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/gardenecologylab\/research\/\">An underlying premise of our work<\/a> is that gardens are important and understudied systems, that are key to building more sustainable, healthy and just communities. Our work is supported by Generous donations from the<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenecology.oregonstate.edu\/gardenecology\/donate\">Garden Ecology league<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000\">To learn more about our current work, please visit the lab website at <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenecology.oregonstate.edu\/\">gardenecology.oregonstate.edu<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3152\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3152\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3152\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2786\/files\/2016\/10\/20250930_125434-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Eight members of a lab group stand on a brick patio, in front of a tree.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2786\/files\/2016\/10\/20250930_125434-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2786\/files\/2016\/10\/20250930_125434-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2786\/files\/2016\/10\/20250930_125434-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2786\/files\/2016\/10\/20250930_125434-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2786\/files\/2016\/10\/20250930_125434-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2786\/files\/2016\/10\/20250930_125434-1870x1403.jpg 1870w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2786\/files\/2016\/10\/20250930_125434-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2786\/files\/2016\/10\/20250930_125434-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garden Ecology Lab 2025-2026. Left to right: Reed, Georgia, Anna J., Gail, Anna P., Nina, Taylor, Signe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We study gardens: the plants, insects, animals, people, decisions and management practices that either improve or degrade a garden&#8217;s ability to promote environmental and human health. An underlying premise of our work is that gardens are important and understudied systems, that are key to building more sustainable, healthy and just communities. 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