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2008 Initiatives

• Claremont Colleges Tree Canopy
• Solar Energy at the Claremont Colleges
• Scripps College Food and Sustainability Community Project:
  • Fruit Map
  • Team

2007 Initiatives

• Greening the Office Supply Stream
• Urban Ecosystem Analysis Using GIS
• 5-College Environmental Audit

Scripps College Food and Sustainability Community Project

A Claremont Colleges Sustainability Initiative

Marmalade

For the past two years Scripps students have been making and selling orange marmalade from fruit that would otherwise rot on Claremont Colleges trees. The marmalade is 100% organic and absolutely delicious. All proceeds have been donated to local non-profit organizations such as the “Get on the Bus Project”, which pays for the children of inmates at the Chino Women’s Prison to visit their moms once a year, and Community Services Unlimited (CSU) which builds and maintains urban community gardens in LA and conducts educational programming for inner-city youth.

Fruit Map

The Fallen Fruit Map, a map of every edible plant on the 5 C’s, was made to with the intention of promoting sustainability in the Claremont area. The map will provide community members with the information necessary to pick and eat the local and organic food that grows on the campuses and all to often goes to waste. The edible fruit growing on the Claremont Consortium is a viable local resource, as well as an environmentally friendly and cheap alternative to imported produce. It is my hope that the map will raise the faculty and students’ awareness of the food available on campus, and prompt people to utilize this resource more in the future.

I meet with every maintenance department on the 5 C’s to learn about the edible plants growing on their grounds – and then, with a lot of technical help from Warren Roberts, I mapped every edible plant on the Claremont College grounds with GIS, a geographical information system mapping software. I have mapped over 600 edible trees, plants, and shrubs on the college grounds.

The maintenance departments were extremely helpful and knowledgeable. I could have never found, or even recognized, all of the plants that I mapped without them. I’ve discovered some interesting species along the way: Strawberry and pineapple guavas, pink-lemonade lemons, edible cacti and Strawberry trees! It is my hope that the students of the Claremont Colleges will use this map to explore the many edible nooks and alcoves on campus and subsidize their diets with free, locally grown, organic fruit.

Materials available on this website

• Fallen Fruit Map – The Edible Landscape of the Claremont Colleges
  Poster showing the location of all edible fruit on the 5C campuses (pdf).
• Team Members
  Team members and contact information.