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

Welcome to The Garden!

In Which College Students Transform the Garden

In Which College Students Transform the Garden

Each garden season as the fall college semester approaches, students participating in the University of Vermont TREK program arrive at the garden. The Garden at 485 Elm is so lucky to be a destination for TREK service volunteers! Several 485 Elm gardeners joined the...

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What else is growing at the garden?

Beautiful

Beautiful

Gardens are beautiful. Food is beautiful. Irina Markova, who gardens here, takes exquisite photos here. Here are some to relish.

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Work happens

Work happens

But not by itself. It's the magic of gardeners coming together to do what needs to be done.                                                  ...

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Just about ready and coming soon

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....

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Harvesting Now

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.

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Coming soon and ready now

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...

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Join us in the herb garden

Join us in the herb garden

On Saturday, August 22 at 5:30 p.m., enjoy a walk, talk, & nibble through the beautiful herb garden. Our host is Herb Gnome Lroy Meryhew, a gardener here at 485 Elm and a 3rd-year student at the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism doing her student-clinic...

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Garden Yoga – Thursday, July 16 & July 23 (5:30-6:30 p.m.)

Garden Yoga – Thursday, July 16 & July 23 (5:30-6:30 p.m.)

Come practice a moderately vigorous yoga flow at The Garden at 485 Elm. Beginners welcome! Thursday, July 16 & Thursday, July 23 5:30 to 6:30 pm Catherine Craig will lead a hatha yoga class with a focus on alignment. Surrounded by beautiful plants and with a view...

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We’ve picked the last garlic scape

We’ve picked the last garlic scape

Garlic scapes are delicious. Picking the scapes allows the plant to send its energy to the garlic bulbs everyone is waiting for, so this harvest yields winners all around. This week I learned that scapes are ready to eat when they twist over like the one pictured...

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Talking Gleaning in the Garden

Talking Gleaning in the Garden

Each season, gardeners and our garden coordinator at The Garden at 485 Elm decide what to grow. We plant as much of each crop as we think will feed the number of gardeners who have committed to being part of this community garden, plus more to donate. But life...

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