The Students For Organic United Living (SOUL) Garden, located on Centennial Campus, now in its second year, will focus on getting more students involved during the fall semester, according to managers.

Expansion for the garden, which is still highly dependent on volunteer work and donated soil, started with increasing its personnel. New to the team is co-manager Ariel Greenwood, a senior in psychology, who joined over the summer.

“We’re very optimistic to make the garden more communal and increase participation,” Greenwood said. “There will be more incentive to stay involved if students have plots out effectively.”

Bryan Maxwell, a senior in civil engineering and former chair of the Sustainability Commission, was one of first to help establish the garden in 2010. He also said the goal for this semester is to solidify the garden’s operational foundation and educate students.

“We want to get more organized,” Maxwell said. “We’ve been lacking structure a those.”

In an effort to curtail this problem, the team is working on building a fence and signage, though the managers said this is not a long-term solution.

Maxwell said the team is looking to expand the garden in terms of adding additional plots but must first get an OK from the University.

These limits on the garden were first realized during the garden’s inception during negotiations with University architects over where the garden would be located.

The original creators of the garden wanted to have a location on main campus, but had to settle for a flood zone area next to Lake Raleigh, where major structures cannot be built.

Greenwood said she thinks the area is “unconventional,” but it proved to work well in the end.

In the past year, the SOUL Garden team has partnered with the on-campus farmers market as well as another community garden located in the honor’s village.

The garden won the Think Outside The Brick competition in 2010, which encourages students to submit ideas for sustainable projects on campus.