You *can* eat the daisies!
Our herb walk with herbalist Diana Baron fell on a gorgeous late spring evening and revealed a big food surprise: daisies! How …
485 Elm Gardeners Protect Honeybees
Mike and Robin Harris, who garden here at 485 Elm, tend honeybee hives at home. Recently, on WCAX-TV, Robin, Mike, and our …
Compostville 3.0 is underway!
The third iteration of Compostville is online and soon will be accepting gardeners’ food scraps! The short videos below demonstrate the system …
First Major Planting Complete
We’ve planted seeds and some seedlings that don’t require consistently warm soil and sun: beans, beets, Brussels sprouts, carrots, chard, cilantro, kale, …
Early garden food
Most of our garden crops are barely peeking out of the ground—tiny peas vines, baby bean plants, onion seedlings, and lovely little …
Sunday in the Dirt
Our first big garden work party of the season! It was a gorgeous sunny day, so comfortable for gardening. We knocked off …
Winter Gardening Dreams
While the garden is under many inches of snow, we have already begun the 2019 season.
Compostville 3.0
Have you seen Compostville lately? It’s another area of the Garden at 485 Elm, transformed. Did you know that food makes up …
Planting Garlic
On a Saturday in late October, we began planting garlic seed at eight in the morning. We had stay ahead of incoming …