Sammy the Serpent helps plot the plots
Community Gardeners
Are you an experienced gardener? A new gardener? A visitor? Someone who wants to play in the dirt and help grow and eat delicious, fresh, organic food?
- Meet the garden managers and complete registration forms
- A $60 per season materials fee covers seeds, tools, and supplies for the entire season, as well as the food gardeners harvest
- Gardeners commit two hours weekly to the garden throughout the growing season
- If the garden is full, we will add you to our waiting list. Typically, there is gardener turnover during each season due to moves, jobs, and other life changes.
An international team of AmeriCorps VISTA volunteers put up the fence around The Garden at 485 Elm
UVM Extension Master Composters and Interns
The Garden at 485 Elm is a certified volunteer site for interns and certified Master Composters.
Service Groups, Clubs, Students
We welcome (and need) your help! The Garden at 485 Elm offers community group service project opportunities in sustainable horticulture and food security.
We’ve hosted high school students fulfilling community service hours, Vermont Youth Tomorrow / Vermont Youth Development Corps volunteers, AmeriCorps VISTA volunteers, and more.
Please contact sheryl@thegardenat485elm.org.
Rich Horchler of FixerMen contributed these perennials from his very own garden. They are growing in the bed along the sidewalk in front of The Garden at 485 Elm.
Individual and Business Supporters
The Garden at 485 Elm exists and thrives thanks to the generosity of people like you and organizations like yours.
We very much appreciate monetary and in-kind donations.
Malcolm Gray of Montpelier Construction, a garden sponsor, plans renovations to this garden’s tool shed. Montpelier Parks Department provided the shed, which was originally constructed by Yestermorrow Design/Build School.
Please contact sheryl@thegardenat485elm.org.
