Purpose
Noncommunicable diseases represent a significant health burden, locally and globally. Addressing lifestyle factors such as diet, physical activity, and stress, alongside social and structural determinants of health, is crucial for improving health outcomes. We seek to improve health and wellness by creating a sustainable community garden on campus.

Methods
The Nourish Community Garden will promote student learning, physical activity, stress management, social connection, and community engagement. It is a student-led, faculty-supported project. The garden we seek to establish will be designed, constructed, planted, and maintained by volunteers. It will be incorporated into the medical school curriculum and address local food insecurity. Patients at the Athens Free Clinic will be surveyed and their preferences will inform crop selection; produce will then be distributed to clinic patients. Incorporating the garden into the curriculum will provide hands-on learning experiences in nutrition and lifestyle medicine, equipping future healthcare providers to promote healthy lifestyles. We hope to foster interdisciplinary collaborations to enhance educational opportunities across campus.

Results
An active student interest group is flourishing; founding members investigated local community gardens and formed partnerships with local organizations that have pledged advice and support. We will report on progress such as fundraising, patient survey results, garden design, approvals, construction, crop selection, planting, and volunteer participation. We look forward to sharing ideas for curricular integration and interdisciplinary collaboration, successes, challenges, and lessons learned.

Conclusion
The student-centered Nourish Community Garden project is an innovative approach to integrating climate-friendly agriculture and lifestyle medicine into medical training. By addressing food insecurity and promoting healthy behaviors, the project aims to reduce the burden of noncommunicable diseases locally in the short term and have a broader impact on the health of our graduates and their future patients in the long term. This initiative has the potential to positively impact community health and medical education.