The Garden at 485 Elm
People growing together:
A collaborative community garden in Montpelier, Vermont

Welcome to The Garden!

Potato and Shallot Harvest

Potato and Shallot Harvest

The potatoes were ready, so gardeners dug them up. They were divided into shares, with each of the garden's households getting a bucket of red and purple and a bucket of white potatoes. Unlike potatoes, which must be dug up, shallots lift easily out of the ground....

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What else is growing at the garden?

With a Little Help from Our Friends at AmeriCorps

With a Little Help from Our Friends at AmeriCorps

This week, an AmeriCorps Team of four made great strides in Compostville's transformation. We're revamping our compost system to have greater capacity for food scraps and a longer season of composting. Compostville at The Garden at 485 Elm is one of four grant-funded...

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We Plant the Season’s First Seedlings

We Plant the Season’s First Seedlings

Finally, the air and soil are warm enough to plant seedlings. This week, we planted Brussels sprouts and herbs and, of course, more seed. Next week, we plant seedlings of tomatoes, cukes, hot peppers, eggplants, and basil.

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Early Planting Accomplished

Early Planting Accomplished

We've planted all our early crops, the ones that can go in while there's still threat of frost: Beets Carrots Kale & Other Leafy Greens Peas Salad Greens Summer squash We're looking forward to June, when we'll plant tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, hot peppers,...

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Planting Onion Seedlings

Planting Onion Seedlings

By the Ides of May, we've planted the onion bed, carrots, summer squash, peas, and massive messes of greens. There's much more still to plant as the season warms: Beets, pole beans, bush beans, flowers for cutting, and, of course, tomatoes.

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“Water the earth, not the air”

“Water the earth, not the air”

"Water roots, not leaves." "Water the earth, not the air. " These are some of the many lessons we learned from our first garden coordinator in 2014. Here are scenes from this year's watering orientation. /

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Early Herb Walk

Early Herb Walk

Clinical herbalist and Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism student Diana Baron led us in and around the garden to identify the plants just poking out of the earth as we begin the 2018 gardening season. We took this herb stroll on April 21, a week before our first...

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