Growing Good Food

The Allen and Freda Pedersen Community Garden celebrates the legacy of the Pedersens in growing flowers, fruits, and vegetables to share with others. This garden is a first for the Crookston campus and the result of the generosity of (the late) Allen & Freda Pedersen.  This project has had many collaborators: City of Crookston (land owner), Sodexo Dining Services, Valley Technology Park, and the U of M Crookston Center for Sustainability, Student Affairs, Academic Affairs, and Agriculture and Natural Resources Department have helped make the garden a reality over the years. Produce from the garden is used in the campus dining hall and students are hired to assist with the garden's maintenance.

 

location of Pedersen Garden on the U of M Crookston campus

Location on Campus
The Allen and Freda Pedersen Community Garden's primary location is on the northern side of the University of Minnesota Crookston campus, east of the University Teaching and Outreach Center and west of the Valley Technology Park. 

University Teaching and Outreach Center
2900 University Ave, Crookston MN 56716

Building of garden grow boxes at the Pedersen Garden
Students helping harvest produce in the Pedersen Garden
Rows of produce growing and a subset pic of Allen Pedersen with a cucumber sitting in his chair
Working the ground for the very first time at the new Pedersen Garden.
Allan and Allen Pedersen
More late summer produce coming from the Pedersen Garden
Garden maintenance
Worker on a step stool trying to get vines to grow up on the poles
Student working with corn in the Production Greenhouse
Student worker hoeing around tomato plants
student worker cleaning up flowers

Points of Interest

Proud Partners of the Pedersen Community Garden

Crookston Visitor Bureau (CVB)
Crookston Area Community Fund
Northwest Research & Outreach Center
City of Crookston
Northwest Regional Sustainable Development Partnership
Walmart