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?
The garden all snug in its bed — asleep, but never dead
This is the quiet period between the end of the 2016 season, officially on Dec. 31, and the beginning of the 2017 season, on Jan. 1. We've pulled out spent crops, spread cover-crop seed, raked leaves over the beds, and turned the compost. But the garden is merely...
Fall Garden Cleanup
And the garden is transformed again.
Mid-October Work Party Transforms Garden
Community Tai Chi at the Garden
On a crisp fall afternoon, Baylen led us in a gentle tai chi and qigong practice by the river.
River Discovery Walk Discoveries
On a beautiful late summer Saturday morning, naturalist and gardener at 485 Elm, Ned Swanberg, introduced us to flora, fauna, and the river itself. We heard bird calls, identified native, exotic, and invasive plants, and found connections between our watershed and the...
Feeding the community
According to Hunger Free Vermont: One in five Vermont children experiences hunger or food hardship. To help increase food security, Montpelier offers free community meals every day of the week. Every growing season, the Garden at 485 Elm contributes food to Central...
Fall Water Fest fills September
The festival runs until October 1. The organizers describe Fall Water Fest as: An exploration through music, the arts, poetry, and various outdoor explorations of the value and symbolism of water and of our need to protect it from pollution, privatization of the...
A big-deal work party
Food ready to eat is the most exciting. We planted more food to extend the season. And we moved something very large. ...
Video: Compostville Has Moved
"Not too shabby." That's what Hannah said at the end of this video, though you can't hear her. Hannah is right. Today Hannah, John, and Chris relocated Compostville. It's now away from our neighbor's fence and the Japanese knotweed infestation. The food scraps are in...
Join us for a River Discovery Walk
As part of Fall Water Fest (complete schedule below), at 9 a.m. on Saturday, September 17, we'll meet at the Garden at 485 Elm Street, and walk until approximately 11 a.m. We’ll look for late summer changes along the river. What is fruiting, flying, feeding? What...
