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The Trailhead
Everything the club is growing, asking and dreaming about — pinned right here.
The Map
The food forest in 3D, built on the real shape of the land: the hoop houses, the herb spiral, the old oak and the dry creek, plus the rain gardens and swales planned next.
Questions, projects and mystery plants — pinned by the club, answered by the club.
Three honest lanes — we never fake a date.
Coming up
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Fermentation Workshops (Kombucha & Alcohol-Making) Upcoming academic year (FY27 budgeted, ~30 est. attendance); alcohol-making class floated for Fall 2026
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Fig Propagation Workshop Semester kickoff window, tentatively Feb-March 2026 (exact date TBD via Instagram)
Cleo Bailey Experiment (Anderson, SC) · with 1 partnerwith Cleo Bailey Experiment
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Paw Paw Festival Fall 2026 · date announced soon
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Plant & Product Sale March-April 2026 (coordinating with Botanical Gardens / SCNPS)
Hunnicutt Food Forest · with 2 partnerswith Botanical Gardens, SC Native Plant Society (SCNPS)
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Tincture-Making Workshop Upcoming academic year (FY27 budgeted, ~30 est. attendance)
The rhythm
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Arbor Day Tree Planting (with City of Clemson) Annual, early December (one instance: Friday, Dec 6, 3:30pm at Clemson Park)
Clemson Park / Green Crescent Trail, City of Clemson public spaces · with 1 partnerwith City of Clemson
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Campus Tabling (Tiger Prowl, Club Fairs, Involvement Events) Recurring: Tiger Prowl mid-August; Club & C.I. Fair each fall; other campus involvement fairs as scheduled
Clemson campus
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Cultivate Clemson Each semester (date set per semester)
Hunnicutt Food Forest (HFF), East Campus, Clemson · with 8 partnerswith Trees Upstate, Farm Girl Deliveries, Liberty Farm, Native Plants Society, Treehouse Trade School, Happy Berry Farm, SC Native Plant Society (SCNPS), Clemson Restoration Farm
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Mushroom Log Inoculation Days Recurring, tied to fall Stewardship Days (budgeted again for the upcoming academic year, ~50 est. attendance)
Hunnicutt Food Forest · with 1 partnerwith Mushroom Club at Clemson
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Pickling Workshops Recurring; one dated instance Fri Nov 22, 8-10pm; budgeted again for FY27
Barnes Center (Clemson student reservation space); one instance venue unspecified · with 4 partnerswith Clemson CSLE, Clemson MANRRS, Infinite Seeds Academy, Barnes Center
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Piedmont Prairie Seed Sowing & Establishment Seasonal, recurring (fall seed collection/sowing window)
Hunnicutt Food Forest · with 3 partnerswith SCNPS Nursery, SC Botanical Garden (SCBG) Prairie, GA Plant Conservation Alliance
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Public Planting Days & Guided Farm Tours Recurring through the year (FY27 budgeted, ~75 est. attendance per session)
Hunnicutt Food Forest / campus and community sites
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Purple Martin Birdhouse Building Ongoing infrastructure tradition (5 houses + hinge-pole system built to date; more planned)
Hunnicutt Food Forest / partner sites along the Clemson Trail System · with 1 partnerwith Scott Bunn
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Seed Starting Workshops (with Native Plants Club) Recurring; has run ~5 times in the past year
Clemson Greenhouses, Biosystems Research Complex (on campus) · with 2 partnerswith Native Plants Club, Clemson Biosystems Research Complex
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Semester Kickoff Start of each semester (Fall & Spring), ~2 events/year
Lake Issaqueena (has also been held near/at Hunnicutt Food Forest) · with 6 partnerswith Scott Bunn / Treehouse Trade School, Farm Girl Deliveries, Carolina Clear - Clemson Extension, Native Plants Society, Geometrix, The Cleo Bailey Experiment
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Service Event Recurring, once per semester (~80 est. attendance)
Clemson campus / Hunnicutt Food Forest
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Stewardship Sundays Weekly on Sundays, excluding academic breaks (~27 open workdays/year: ~13 fall, ~14 spring)
Hunnicutt Food Forest
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Sustainability Summit Tabling / Feature Annual (upcoming calendar year)
Clemson campus (Sustainability Summit) · with 1 partnerwith Sustain SC
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Weekly Meetings Weekly during the semester (day/time TBD each term); ~14/semester, 28/year
Brackett Hall, Clemson campus
The Dream Board
Event at Each Partner Organization
Standing hope to hold at least one event at each of the outside organizations the club wo…
Three Sisters Guild Planting Day
A Three Sisters guild planting (corn, beans, squash) as a distinct educational planting-d…
Guerrilla Gardening Days
Coordinated 'guerrilla gardening' planting days along trails, done in coordination with t…
Native Plant Society Collaboration Events
Open-ended idea to coordinate more events with the Native Plant Society (contact: Ryan Me…
Community Stream Restorations
Assist community stream-restoration days to improve water quality and streambank stabilit…
Rain Garden Installations
Site and install rain gardens / small stormwater-infiltration features as a hands-on stud…
Green Crescent Trail Native Bench Planting Kits
Install 5 benches paired with standardized native-plant kits as trail/campus infrastructu…
Competition with USC
Friendly rivalry/competition event idea with the University of South Carolina (compared t…
Trash Pickup / Cleanup Day
Community cleanup/trash-pickup volunteer day idea.
Winter Rye Harvest to Brewery/Bakery Handoff
Harvest the rye currently in the ground and hand it off to a local brewery and bakery -- …
Citizen Science Project / BioBlitz at Clemson
Idea for a citizen-science species-inventory event (a 'BioBlitz') at Clemson, potentially…
Mushroom Harvest Sale / Fundraiser
Leverage mushrooms grown on the inoculated logs into a fundraiser selling harvested mushr…
Kiwi Propagation Workshop
Workshop idea on propagating kiwi, led by longtime partner Scott Bunn.
Canning Events
Food-preservation/canning workshop idea, distinct from the pickling-workshop tradition.
Bouquet Workshop
Idea for a bouquet-making workshop using food-forest flowers.
"Common Ground" Documentary Screening
Proposed public screening of the documentary 'Common Ground'; open question of whether th…
Prescribed Fire / Piedmont Prairie Burn Days
Early-stage idea for a controlled/prescribed burn, floated informally with SCBG and a Res…
Hunnicutt Creek Erosion Stabilization Planting Day
Planting native grasses and forbs along the creek border to stabilize soil and stop worse…
3rd Space / Community Spaces Trail Project
Student-led reclamation of a natural area along the Clemson Trail System into park-like c…
Saturday Shenanigans - Perma-Blitz
Named idea for a permaculture-blitz workday event with Treehouse Trade School.
Goats on Site -- "Heal the Valley" Rotational Grazing
Headline idea: multiple rounds of goat rotational grazing through the valley to clear bio…
Harvest Days
A fall harvest-themed public event; currently just a placeholder line in FY27 planning, n…
Pick Your Own Watermelon
A watermelon-picking public event promoted around Tiger Prowl tabling.
Treehouse Trade School Resiliency Skills series
Ongoing collaboration opportunities with Treehouse Trade School, who are building a video…
Pin a dream
Every “we should do this someday” the club has ever written down — add yours.
The story so far
Tree Giveaway at Nettles Park
Friday, 12-4pm
Propagation Day at CBE + Brewery Social
Saturday, Feb 8, ~5:30pm
Native Seed Sowing with Native Plants Club & Agronomy Club
Reach-One Hunnicutt Creek Adoption
Cleo Bailey Experiment Collaborations
Past academic/calendar year, ongoing
Treehouse Trade School Events
Past academic year (~75 attendance across events)