The Winter Squash Bed Becomes the Garlic Bed
Winter squash harvest day comes before the first frost or after the squash have stopped maturing in each day's reduced sunlight and warmth. Gardeners harvested the squashes for sorting and distribution then pulled up the vines, which went onto the garden waste...
What else is growing at the garden?
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...
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...
