For Isaiah Schaefer, Purdue University wrestler and Department of Nutrition Science (NUTR) sophomore, fueling his body to perform on the mat starts with a green thumb.<\/p>\n
Schaefer, who is majoring in nutrition and dietetics in the College of Health and Human Sciences, not only has a personal garden at his home near campus, but he also actively participates in the university\u2019s student-athlete garden, located on the east side of the football practice fields. The student-athlete garden enables Purdue student-athletes to not only experience the full life cycle of vegetables, fruits and herbs but also take fresh produce with them to incorporate into their daily diets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":48064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[263,378,2598,2595,2597,772,240,2596,1238],"class_list":["post-48062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nutrition-science","tag-college-of-health-and-human-sciences","tag-department-of-nutrition-science","tag-gelov-family-performance-athletic-dining-facility","tag-isaiah-schaefer","tag-kayleigh-flach","tag-lauren-link","tag-purdue-university","tag-student-athlete-garden","tag-student-athletes"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n