Gratitude: UVM TREKkies transform the garden!

Volunteers worked here in the garden all day. It was part of their three-day, peer-led orientation adventures for incoming first-year students at University of Vermont.

Many hands accomplished needful projects that we hadn’t tackled amid the ongoing demands of garden maintenance. Students gleaned fresh food, which we brought to a free community lunch to feed our neighbors at a free community lunch.

These volunteers’ hard work will benefit garden health and productivity this season and in seasons yet to come.

Learn more about UVM TREK program here: https://www.uvm.edu/orientation/trek.

  • The walkways are weeded and chipped.
  • Turning the garden waste windrow begins.
  • Thank you, TREKkies!
  • Team wellness break.
  • After gleaning greens for donation, TREKkies planted fall greens.
  • Peas are finished, trellis put away for the season, and old vines and weeds incorporated into the garden waste windrow.

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