The Garden at 485 Elm
People growing together:
a collaborative community garden in Montpelier, Vermont

A Taste of the Garden

So much food is ripe and delicious. Here are a few favorites.

Tasty, colorful bush beans grow on vines that will continue producing as long as we continue harvesting them. In the basket are Maxibel haricots verts from High Mowing Organic Seeds, Tricolor beans from Renee’s Garden Seeds, Royal Burgundy beans from West Coast Seeds, and Provider beans from Johnny’s Seeds.

A huge favorite (simply cannot get enough) are these delicious pole beans: Early Spanish Musica from Renee’s Garden Seeds.

The sweetest-ever Sun Gold cherry tomatoes are growing from nearby Cate Farm starts.

Weeding the crops growing in boxes means finding one’s way to ripe-and-ready food like this purple-top turnip, grown from Sow Right Seeds.

Look at these beautiful little potatoes in those beautiful little hands. It’s not yet time to harvest the potatoes we planted this season. But volunteer potatoes, which coming up all on their own in two other beds and the garden waste windrow, were so ready for digging up and eating.

We’re harvesting cucumbers as fast as we can. They’re growing gloriously from Cate Farm seedlings. Yuki is curious but not appetized. Whereas we humans made these cukes into delectable sesame-cucumber salad and sumptuous cucumber gazpacho. Yum!