UI Gardeners group seeks donors in light of budget cuts - Mastura Ibnat, Daily Iowan

After two years of budget cuts, the University of Iowa delayed plans to fund the UI Gardeners’ recent proposal to build a garden plot on campus. Group past Co-Presidents Jacob Simpson and Sophie Gunnink started an initiative in the fall of 2016 to build a more student-accessible garden, Gunnink said. After the plans were approved by UI Campus Planning, she said, the group was promised that the fall of 2017 would bring a garden near North Hall. “They were pretty much guaranteeing that [Campus Planning] would be done before Jacob and I graduated,” Gunnink said. However, plans to build the garden halted as funds were dropped because of university-wide budget cuts, she said. https://dailyiowan.com/2018/10/17/ui-gardeners-seek-donors-in-light-of-budget-cuts/