A Flurry of Spring Planting
Gardeners planted arugula, carrots, chard, kale, mustard greens, pac choi, snap and snow peas, and spinach in beds that had been covered in leaf mulch for the winter. They created narrow furrows, they mixed in compost, and dropped in the seeds. Finally, they watered...
What else is growing at the garden?
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...
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...
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...
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...
The garden is chugging along
What a weekend of workdays. The bulk of plantings are done or nearly so. We'll continue planting succession crops, fall crops, and winter crops. ...
Planting and eating
Food is beginning to emerge as other seeds and seedlings continue to go into the ground. ...
