Gardens / Gardening Theses

Asterisk (*) after year denotes honors thesis.

1997

• Kari Werntgen, A Garden of One's Own: Homeless Women's Healing Experiences in Community Gardens

1999

• * Michael Marquard and Keith Stapleton, A Permaculture Design for Slade Hall

2001

• * Annie Dwight, A Clear Vision for Burlington Area Community Gardens: Collecting Gardeners'Feedback

2002

• * Ignatius Piedilato and Kristofer Wilfert, Survey of Rooftop Gardens of the Northeast

2003

• Erika Graham, A Green Roof Design for the University of Vermont
• Chase Rosenberg, A Forest Garden at the Vermont Community Botanical Gardens
• Andrea Seddon, Artemisia: A Garden Sanctuary for Women: Theory Process and Design

2006

• Lauren Sparacino, Feeding the Masses: An Ecological Economic Case for Localizing Food Production
  

  2008

• * Emily W. Alger, Young Children in Gardens: An Investigation of Place-Making among Preschoolers
  
• Marissa Dinardo, Community Gardening in the Dominican Republic: A Photo Documentary
• Emily Eschner,  Gardening as Influenced by Environmental Consciousness
• Nancy Ganswindt,  Planting the Seed: The Germination of a Garden-Based Approach to Learning at Garrison Union Free School in Garrison, New York
  
• Ben Orron,  Permaculture Garden Design for Northern New England Schools
  

  2009

• Conor Rice, Uprooting Urban Decay: Ecological Design Applied to Urban Agriculture
• Cortnie Rohr, Back to the Earth: A Place-Based Organic Gardening Course for the Community High School of Vermont
  

  2010

• Alessandro Ascherio  –  Drifting Toward Urban Agriculture: Adventures in Urban Gardening at 26 East Avenue
  
• Allie Calnan  – Seeds of Rebellion: Civil Engagemen in the Gardens of the Lower East Side
  
• Forest William Donaj-Keys  –  Guerrilla Gardening: Perspectives and Trends in the Current Movement
  
• Timothy Smalley-Wall  –  “Food Not Lawns”: Addressing the Costs and Benefits of Converting a Backyard Lawn into a Vegetable Garden, Los Angeles, California
  
• Holly Cameron Watson   –  Cultivating Education: A Service-Learning Partnership with Grow Team ONE
  

  2011

• Hannah M. Aitken   –  Growing to Learn: The Development of a Garden and Nutrition Curriculum for Brewster-Pierce Memorial School
  
• Peter Cummings  –  Farm to School: Environmental Education with Common Roots and Orchard Elementary School
  
• Elizabeth D. Quinn  –  Growing Community: A Public Outreach and Community Organizing Internship Working with Grow Team O.N.E.
  
• * Caitlan Stephens  –  “Things Need to Change Around here.”: The Diversification of a Small Farm in Northwest New Jersey
  
• Amelia Wurzburg  –  The Philosophy of Vegetable Gardening:  Sustainability in the Motivations of Food Gardeners
  

  2012

• Cathryn Hancock  –   Exploring Nature's Bounty: A Summer Gardening and Food Education Internship with Orchard Elementary School
• Bridgette Moore – Digging in the Dirt and Growing Connections: Understanding Early Childhood Connections to Nature Through the Design and Implementation of a Children's Garden for the University of Vermont Children's Center
• Mary Sage Clinton Napolitan – A Permaculture Design for the Bittersweet
• Caroline M. Rush – Shelburne Farms Rain Garden: Incorporating Education and Environmental Protection into a Design
• * Andrew Schlesinger – Rethinking the Role of Community Gardens in Localizing Post-Oil Suburbia: A Proposal for Willowdale Community Garden in Cherry Hill, New Jersey
• Sydney Stieler – Sustainability in the Central Susquehanna Valley: An Internship with the Lewisburg Community Garde
• Brienne Toomey – Digging Up the Dirt: Exposing the Barriers and Challenges of Community Gardening
• Melissa Wheeler – Growing Justice: A Food Justice and Urban Farming Internship with City Slicker Farms in Oakland, California
• * Ellen Winston – A South Burlington Farm-to-School Program's Seasonal Spotlight: The Quest to Attain Food Literacy
  

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