After the Flood: Help Vermont’s Farms and Growers
The Garden at 485 Elm grows along the North Branch of the Winooski River, a mile north of the city of Montpelier. On July 10 and 11, six to nine inches of rain fell, swelling the rivers and inundating the city and surrounding streets of homes and businesses....
What else is growing at the garden?
What we’re doing & eating
It's officially fall. The garden is still feeding us a delicious variety of foods. Some aren't even ready yet. But the days are noticeably shorter and cooler. This comfortable gardening weather signifies the wind-down of gardening season. ...
Central Vermont organization gleaning to feed those in need
In The Garden at 485 Elm's first year, gleaners from Community Harvest of Central Vermont (CHCV) carefully picked, weighed, documented, packaged and delivered 200 pounds of food from this garden. It was a modest but significant contribution to CHCV's program that...
Finishing tomatoes indoors
Sophi was feeding seaweed to the garden rows when she mentioned two sauces she'd made from this year's paste tomatoes, a San Marzano variety. She said the first sauce was sweet and delicious. Whereas the second sauce was quite tart. The difference, said Sophi, was the...
Water, water, everywhere. Please.
This is the dry season. We don't have sagebrush rolling past cacti, but our plants are parched. Cindy, our garden coordinator, runs a watering-intensive garden. Sometimes there are protests: The plants will drown; it's not necessary; mulch will reduce the watering...
Beautiful
Gardens are beautiful. Food is beautiful. Irina Markova, who gardens here, takes exquisite photos here. Here are some to relish.
Work happens
But not by itself. It's the magic of gardeners coming together to do what needs to be done. ...
Just about ready and coming soon
(2 of 2) We have lots of photos and instructions to share with gardeners here. I'm going to post this one publicly for easy sharing with gardeners, and so you can learn more about how a cooperative CSA-model community garden works from the inside....
Harvesting Now
We have lots of photos and instructions to share with gardeners here. I'm going to post this one publicly for easy sharing with gardeners, and so you can learn more about how a cooperative CSA-model community garden works from the inside.
Garden Workday: July 24, 2015
Coming soon and ready now
The garden is exploding with food. This blog's update frequency occurs in inverse proportion to the amount of garden activity because time is a limited commodity. Coming later this week: Cherry Tomatoes, Ground Cherries, Tomatillos, and more. Here are garden sights...
