Pre-Work Party gardening with the Garden Teams
Registered gardeners at the Garden at 485 Elm are welcome to simply show up, check the task board, and get gardening. But gardeners who want to help plan and organize the garden participate in one or more teams: Soil Health, Compost, and Garden Planning & Donations. Last weekend, Garden Team members
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Gardening for the future: 2016’s gardeners made sure we’d have delicious parsnips in 2017
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Cleaning up the perennial bed. It’s out by the road in front of our garden fence.
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Taking inventory of the drip watering systems donated to the garden through the Vermont Community Garden Network
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Pulling last year’s kale and Brussels sprouts stalks
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We thought we’d harvested all the garlic before planting carrots. Now we have an even tastier crop.