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...
What else is growing at the garden?
Gleaning and Feeding Friends & Neighbors
The garden donates food every season. This year, the donation program has been more important than ever. Beans and greens are abundant now. Volunteers from Community Harvest of Central Vermont harvest bush beans. This wall of beautiful bush beans engulfs a volunteer!...
Garlic Harvest
Masked gardeners gather at least six feet from each other to prepare for today's garlic harvest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuyptjFPMZw&feature=youtu.be Pulling garlic from the earth was quick and easy. After that, gardeners separated it by variety. We grew...
Gardening Together for Ourselves and Our Neighbors
The garden donations team had fun harvesting chard, bush beans, and onions tops to be used as scallions. They packaged them up in meal-sized bags and brought them to nearby neighbors. All that was harvested went quickly! Now that the gone-by veggies are, well, gone,...
Mulching Efficiently to Get Out of the Heat
The walkways between the squash beds have been weeded. Gardeners laid down cardboard and covered it with hay. That will suppress weeds and give the winter squash a supportive surface to ripen on. The heat is doing a number on our snap peas and snow peas, as you can...
This Is Us: Vermont’s New Composting Law
Food waste costs everyone shocking amounts of money, seriously harms the environment, and—not for nothing—wastes food. Vermont's new ban on food scraps in the trash aims to remedy that. Much of this short, important story was recorded right here....
Summer Squash: It Begins
It starts with a couple of fruit. Then a few. And then, if we're lucky, the Zucchini Apocalypse is nigh!
It’s Harvest O’Clock!
Peas are sweet, delicious, and ready to eat. Chamomile and Johnny Jump-ups Rainbow Chard Kale of Many Colors Italian Large-Leaf Basil Lettuces and More Lettuces Yet to come: beets, onions, ginger, and beautiful flowers holding the promise of many, many more...
Life Happens
And it's so beautiful.
Warming Up for Warm-Weather Crops
Chris plants ground cherry (or husk cherry) seedlings. We decided not to grow tomatoes this season, as they take many, many hours of care every week. Ground cherries are a tomato relative that's much easier to grow and is delicious to eat right off the bush like fresh...
How Crops Get Here: Rhubarb
An email arrived from the person who sold her Montpelier home to the mother of one of the garden cofounders. Rhubarb was growing in the garden beside the house, and the seller thoughtfully suggested we might want it for the community garden. Garden cofounder Chris in...
