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Garden productivity has peaked for the season. Where once walls of tomato plants stood, there is open air and cleared beds just planted with cover crop seed. Food remains abundant, though not as varied. There's more planting to be done.

Someone asked me, "How was the garden this season?" "Wonderful!" I replied. "It still is." We are fall gardening, with the end of some crops and the beginning of others. The light is turning autumn colors, rich and golden. We savor the days, each one now noticeably...

We're past summer and the days are suddenly shorter. But we haven't had our first frost.

The Garden at 485 Elm is part of the Vermont Community Garden Network's Wild for Pollinators initiative. It's a very serious matter for our food crops that native bees, including honeybees, are in trouble. Pollinator-welcoming habitat in every garden, yard,...

This workshop is full.  Please stay tuned for additional opportunities. If you registered before the cutoff, please walk or bicycle if possible. Drivers, please park on another street to save the few driveway spots for those cannot walk as far. Love food, hate waste?...

Gardeners and garden visitors have commented that our pea season seemed to last an unusually long time. Well, peas are over. And so much more is ready!

We garden together every Tuesday evening, weather permitting. Here's what we did yesterday. Garlic is ready to harvest when lots of other crops are ready, too.  

We've been harvesting food for ourselves and for donation for over a month. Now early summer crops are giving way to the lush food that ripens mid-summer.

In The Garden at 485 Elm, everyone grows all crops together. Everyone picks from the same beds of greens, the same tomato plants, the same herb boxes. One of the most common questions about the garden is, "How do you divide the food shares?" There's plenty of food for...