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

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The Thick of Harvest Season

The Thick of Harvest Season

Whichever direction you look in the garden, there's food ready to eat. These haricots verts and other bush beans need harvesting for the vines to continue producing. Edamame and pole beans will come later. There's greens, greens, greens! As fast as they get harvested...

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What else is growing at the garden?

The 2016 season garden begins

The 2016 season garden begins

The Garden at 485 Elm is full for 2016. We have new gardeners, as well as gardeners entering their second and third years here. There are already people on the waiting list, too.

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Mid-December gardening in Vermont

Mid-December gardening in Vermont

The usually warm fall has extended the productive 2015 gardening season later than we could have imagined.                                  ...

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Pansies in November

Pansies in November

The forecast was for a sunny day in the 60s with no wind. Of course, we called a workday.                                                  ...

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Garden Cleanup

Garden Cleanup

We knew this day was coming. This weekend's forecast is for hard frost. Amid the raindrops this afternoon, a few wet snowflakes fell. By day's end, humans and the weather had transformed the garden again.                  ...

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Thank you, Front Porch Forum

Thank you, Front Porch Forum

Please join me in supporting Front Porch Forum by contributing here: http://frontporchforum.com/supporting-members In April 2014, our south yard was a lawn. I posted to Front Porch Forum looking for people who might want to use some of the lawn to grow food. The posts...

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Oct. workdays: Compost & so much more

Oct. workdays: Compost & so much more

On a gorgeous fall weekend, we transformed the garden for the season. Ella and Hannah feed corn stalks into the chipper so they can be added to the compost pile. Norma arrives with more stalks.   We've pulled out the row cover for the season. Peppers and zucchini...

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