<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/2022/0804-hoop-house.php" dsn="blogs"><featured/><feature_title>Featured News</feature_title><title>Hoop house capstone brings together campus and community</title><author>Rachel Rumpf</author><author_email>info@skidmore.edu</author_email><pubDate>08/08/2022 09:45:41 AM</pubDate><display>display</display><description>Senior research yields year-round growing and gathering space that will bolster sustainability efforts, coursework, and well-being at Skidmore.</description><category>News</category><image_listing><img src="/news/2022/images/0804-hoop-house-thumbnail.jpg" alt="Julia Danielsen and Emily Chase "/></image_listing><image><img src="/news/2022/images/0805-hoop-house-feature-new.jpg" alt="Julia Danielsen and Emily Chase"/></image><caption>Recent graduates Julia Danielsen ’22, left, an environmental studies and economics double major, and Emily Chase ’22, an environmental studies major with a minor in English, constructed the Skidmore Hoop House this summer.</caption></item>