A learning community fostering student leaders.
Farmed by students for students, the Campus Farm promotes sustainability, food access, and on-farm carbon neutrality.
Now hiring summer interns
Applications are open now through March 2, 2025, and most positions begin May 5, 2025. Click on the links below for more information.
Empowering sustainable food systems
The Campus Farm at Matthaei Botanical Gardens is student-driven multi-stakeholder living learning lab for sustainable food systems work built around food grown by students for students in a learning community that fosters student leadership development and high-impact teaching and learning opportunities.
Are you a University of Michigan student interested in joining our farm workdays or farm shifts? We’d love to have you on board! Simply fill out the Campus Farm Club Interest Form to get started.
Leading a world-class transformation
Along with its collaborative partners the University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program and the Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, the farm is transforming U-M into a world-class place for twenty-first century scholarly research, teaching, and engagement in sustainable food systems.
The Campus Farm tangibly demonstrates Matthaei-Nichols and the U-M Sustainable Food Program’s core values and ties together education, community, and sustainable food in a way that hasn’t been done before at the U-M.
Making Leaders
As much laboratory as classroom, the Campus Farm provides leadership development, education, and research opportunities in ways students might never have experienced before and contributes to authentic and impactful teaching and learning.
Such hands-on experience provides invaluable lessons related to sustainable food production for students from a wide range of disciplines who—even if they don’t go on to be farmers—will play a role in food systems issues ranging from public health, the environment and our economies, in their future careers.
Farm Stand
Looking for fresh, local produce right on campus? The Farm Stand at the University of Michigan is a student-led market that makes sustainable food more accessible to the U-M community. Stop by to pick up seasonal fruits and vegetables grown at the Campus Farm at Matthaei Botanical Gardens, support student-driven food initiatives, and be part of a growing movement for food justice.
From Farm to Table
See how the campus farm is partnering with U-M Dining Services to bring fresh produce to Michigan students.
Straw-bale building
The straw-bale building is well placed on the University of Michigan Campus Farm.