Welcome to The Garden!

It's a huge planting week at The Garden at 485 Elm. We're planting squash, cucumber, peppers, herbs, and . . . tomatoes! We purchased our tomato and pepper seedlings at Ananda Gardens, an organic grower in Montpelier who also offers a wonderful CSA. Watch the video...

We've put in more veggies and started adding herbs. Our biggest planting days are still ahead of us.

May 1 brings an escalation of garden activity.

Gardener at 485 Elm Diana Baron, a student at the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, contributed these words and photos, except for Good King Henry image from Wikimedia Commons. Though we've just put our first seeds in the ground, there are already things to...

Much planting happened in the garden on this cool and rainy final day of April.

It was a day in the dirt. Several gardeners were at the Climate March here and Montpelier and in Washington, D.C., while some of us worked for the earth right here at the Garden at 485 Elm.

Registered gardeners at the Garden at 485 Elm are welcome to simply show up, check the task board, and get gardening. But gardeners who want to help plan and organize the garden participate in one or more teams:  Soil Health, Compost, and Garden Planning &...

The Garden at 485 Elm will hold our first work parties at the end of April. The new garden leadership teams are assessing the needs and planning the big planting days to come.

Press release from the University of Vermont Extension Master Gardener program: COMMUNITY GARDEN PROJECT TURNS FOOD SCRAPS INTO BLACK GOLD Montpelier--When gardeners return to The Garden at 485 Elm in Montpelier next spring, they'll have a ready supply of "black gold"...