Chef Marco Agostini praises garden's sustainability, educational use
Summary
Chef Marco Agostini thanked volunteers Aug. 20 and described the Tranquility Garden's "360-degree" sustainability model—using kitchen waste for compost—and its role in student cooking classes and community restoration after storms.
Chef Marco Agostini accepted recognition on behalf of Hyatt staff and volunteers and used his remarks to highlight the garden's resilience and educational role. He described repeated storm damage and the volunteers' work to restore the garden, saying the project "is a great idea because it's a when you care, you can see it's coming alive."
Marco emphasized the garden's sustainability loop: hotel kitchen waste is composted and returned to the garden, and students and trainees use produce in cooking classes. "The Tranquility Garden is a very sustainable garden because it's coming from all the wastage of the kitchen, meaning all the vegetable," he said, linking the hotel's food operations with hands-on education for GCC students and cadets. Marco also framed the garden as part of Chef Tony's legacy and an intergenerational community resource.
His remarks underscored both operational practices (compost and volunteer labor) and the program's softer benefits: restorative spaces for participants and community cohesion. He and other speakers urged continued participation and invited the public to visit the garden at the Hyatt Regency.
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