First Garden Food of the Season
French sorrel is among the first garden crops to appear and the last being harvested before the garden goes to sleep for the winter. This perennial herb has a lemony tang to brighten up any salad or sandwich. It is a cooking herb, and gardeners share French sorrel...
What else is growing at the garden?
Compost workdays
Thirteen gardeners completed important garden projects. Hannah, garden co-coordinator, led a compost system design-and-build, and today gardeners measured, cut, and assembled new cedar bins. Gardeners also tilled compost into beds, organized tools and materials for...
Indoor interlude
The Garden at 485 Elm starts a lot of seeds indoors and covered on porches. Starting our own seeds saves a lot of money over buying "starts" -- when someone else starts seeds, so gardeners can buy them as young plants ready to go into the ground. Today Hannah and I...
Planting peas and parsnips
First workday of 2016: Garlic
Spring’s beginnings
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.
“Community Gardens will save our planet”
People growing together
“Community gardens bring people together.” -Pete Seeger
Mid-December gardening in Vermont
The usually warm fall has extended the productive 2015 gardening season later than we could have imagined. ...
Pansies in November
The forecast was for a sunny day in the 60s with no wind. Of course, we called a workday. ...
