Community, Student Events, Sustainability

Hoya Harvest Festival from the Earth Commons

The annual Hoya Harvest Festival is a celebration of the earth and the diversity of ways the Georgetown community is growing to nurture it. The fair features environment and sustainability initiatives across campus, fall-themed activities, reuse crafts and more.

Join the Earth Commons for food and drinks, music, art, crafts, and all things fall on the Hoya Harvest Garden (Regents Hall, Fourth Floor Patio), 4-6 PM on Friday, October 18th. Carve pumpkins, up-cycle button making, and learn about upcoming environment and sustainability initiatives around campus.

For the first time ever, join the Earth Commons to harvest your own pumpkin from our garden and then carve what you harvest!

The Hoya Harvest Garden is creating a sense of shared responsibility around sustainable food systems by integrating farming spaces into the campus, generating food for the community, hands-on learning experiences, and dialogue around human impacts and food production.

Activities

  • Food & Fall drinks!
  • Pumpkin carving and contest by the Earth Commons and supported by Outdoor Education. We will have a limited amount of pumpkins available, first come, first served! Carving begins at 4:15pm with winners announced at 5:30pm
  • Hoya Harvest Garden planting and harvesting (U- Pick) by the Earth Commons.
  • GU Phantoms performance.
  • Learn more about Georgetown Women’s Alliance (GWA), Outdoor Education, Buddhist Students Association (BuSA), Georgetown Program Board, and Black Student Alliance.
  • Hoya Hospitality‘s Sustainability team will promote its sustainable objectives.
  • Energy, Environmental, Sustainability Committee from Grad Gov will be giving information about their compost pilot and Earth Month.
  • Office of Sustainability will be sharing some information about the office’s activities, roles and giveaways.
  • Button making with the Undergraduate Biology Department Committee on Justice, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and Georgetown University Environmental Health Collaborative. 
  • Learn more about Energize GU!
  • Sign up for the ECo-preneurship Workshop with  Georgetown Entrepreneurship.
  • Body scrub making with Hoya Harvest lavender with BS in Environment & Sustainability.
  • Shop secondhand items with Georgetown REUSE.
  • Learn about the “Dear Body of Water” initiative and the invitation to all GU artists, poets, activists, and lovers of water to submit their creative works for the Library’s upcoming exhibition with Georgetown University Library and GREEN (Georgetown Renewable Energy and Environmental Network).
  • Make pomander with Slow Food.
  • 3D print with the Maker Hub.
  • …and much more!