Co-Founded at Clemson University
Students for Stewardship
Making stewardship visible, practical, and repeatable — at the intersection of Clemson's campus and the community it's part of.
Co-Founded at Clemson University
Making stewardship visible, practical, and repeatable — at the intersection of Clemson's campus and the community it's part of.
Mission
Students for Stewardship is a student organization at Clemson University, co-founded by Andrew Evans. The mission: build ecological resilience through hands-on land stewardship — and make that stewardship visible, practical, and repeatable.
The strategic positioning is deliberate. S4S sits at the intersection of the university and the city — not just doing campus cleanup, but working on projects that connect Clemson's ecological assets to the surrounding community and demonstrate what university land can do when managed with intention.
Place
The strategic geography is laid out in the East Campus White Paper — a thought-leadership document Andrew authored that maps two key corridors running through Clemson's East Campus:
Hunnicutt Creek and its riparian zone — the primary ecological spine connecting upper and lower campus. The site of the Stream Restoration CI and the Food Forest.
A community-accessible productive landscape — food forests, native plantings, and edible gardens that connect students, faculty, and city residents to the land.
Work
Initiatives
Flagship project — a productive food forest on East Campus designed as community green infrastructure. Permanent, native-focused, low-maintenance.
Andrew leads this Creative Inquiry, bringing students into real restoration design on Hunnicutt Creek using professional engineering methods.
Learn more →Annual community planting and stewardship event — late April 2026. Bringing campus and city together around shared land.
Joint programming with Agronomy Club and other campus organizations to build a broader stewardship coalition at Clemson.
Documents
Organization Info
