What’s new in the garden includes history
Gardeners have been busy planting early crops. Seeds now growing include arugula, chard, kale, pac choi, snow & snap peas, mustard greens, and spinach. Garlic planted in November 2023 emerges this spring. Crops planted in previous seasons are coming up too....
What else is growing at the garden?
Volunteers Help Make This Garden Grow
In two hours, three positive, productive, and skilled volunteers erased several hours’ worth of work from the hardworking gardeners’ docket. In contrast to the pounding rain and shin-high puddles that washed out our June 20 volunteer day, yesterday was gloriously...
Floral Interlude
Liz le Serviget, the garden's flower goddess, as seen by photographer and fellow gardener Irina Markova. Did you notice sweetest Melchi in the background?
Afternoon among the Herbs
On a gorgeous September afternoon, we experienced delicious and clinically helpful herbs. Our guide was a gardener here who is also a clinical herbalist intern at the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism. They work with herbs from appreciation for traditional...
Discoveries beyond the Garden Fence
The wild-growing area beyond the garden fence was mowed lawn until 2015. That's when we partnered with Friends of the Winooski River and US Fish and Wildlife biologists to restore 0.7 acres along the North Branch of the Winooski River with native riparian plants and...
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...
Happy Garden Day to You!
Food and flowers together—beautiful inspiration! Harvesting flowers is good for the plants' health. Filling our homes with flowers is good for our mental health. Everybody wins.
Zinnias, cosmos, and daisies
Food isn't all we grow here at the Garden at 485 Elm. Liz, our flower goddess, makes sure we have cultivated and wild blooming things to calm our spirits and beautify our homes. Gardeners can snip all the blossoms they want. We cut bouquets and give them to our...
The Garden Bounty Is Here
Cucumbers have arrived. On the left are green finger cucumbers, on the right, marketmore cukes. Thinning beets and harvesting beets are now the same task. And mighty tasty too! We glean in our own garden. The lopped-off mustard green flowers will make a delicious and...
Food is love. And we love our community.
Here's a word from the garden's donation team leader, Caitlin Roseen. The first garden donation of 2019 is in the books! This beautiful bunch of garlic scapes was given to Bethany Bowl, which is one of the free community lunch programs in Montpelier. The lunch...
Season of Abundance
Just like that, the garden is vivid, with leafy profusion in many colors. We're dining on garden food daily, and it seems we could harvest lettuces and chard forever. Flowers are blooming, ready for gardeners to cut and and fill their homes. Our greens boxes are...
