Grounds, Waste Management and Pest Control

Championship Field is a sustainably-maintained, sand-based natural sport turf field. It measures 86,000 square feet and accommodates training practices and competition play year-round.

Seattle University Park is a synthetic turf field of 108,330 square feet and accommodates university varsity athletics, UREC and club sports.

Logan Field Varsity Softball is a specialized mix of sand, silt and clay and field conditioner over gravel drain field and accommodates training practices and competition play year-round.

Seattle University Gardens reflect a long history of prominent gardeners upholding plant collections for pacific northwest natives, urban wildlife and pollinators.

Plant collections support campus community education, enjoyment, research, conservation and higher learning.

SU gardens include Japanese gardens Kubota and Remembrance, Coast Salish Vi Hilbert Ethnobotanical Gardens, Cisco Morris Biodiversity Garden, prominent pacific northwest rain gardens and many gems throughout campus.

The Seattle University campus is home to a large number of venerable trees. Many are of historical significance, linked to Fugitaro Kubota and the Kubota family legacy on the campus grounds.

The SU urban forest is a living, dynamic system supported and cared for by generations of campus gardeners and community working to preserve this critical environmental resource.

Noteworthy Trees

Aligned with the Jesuit values, SU Grounds Edible Campus Initiative focuses on integral ecology of multiple systems of growing edibles, highlighting food security and justice issues.

Students engage with campus gardeners and learn organic greenhouse management, starting veggies from seed, transplanting, organic plant and pest management and coordinated harvest donation.

The edible campus is a sustainable urban agriculture tool for teaching others, a springboard for rethinking broken food systems, and an incubator for inventive ideas about food security for future generations. By designing edibles into the existing gardens, we are encouraging students to identify and harvest food in their own backyard.

We strive to become a zero-waste campus by providing excellent facilities and services while having the highest recycling rate possible and the lowest overall weights possible for all waste streams.

It is campus-wide policy to integrate sustainability into current operational practices; Facilities Services has oversight in managing, collecting and disposing of waste, recycling. Composting and surplus.

• National Wildlife Federation Campus Race to Zero Waste 2024 National Winners
• Post Landfill Action Network for pursuing zero waste goals
• Green Building Council TRUE Advisor Certificates for pursuing zero waste goals

• National Wildlife Federation
• Post Landfill Action Network