Welcome to The Garden!

It's called "putting to bed" because the garden doesn't die; it sleeps. And we gardeners rest our bodies while dreaming about and planning the garden for spring. Harvesting the last radishes. Plenty of beautiful radishes for gardeners and shoppers at the Montpelier...

Garlic seed is . . . garlic! Every August when we harvest the garlic crop, we retain have of it for replanting. We reserve the biggest, most beautiful heads, In late October or early November, weather depending, Just before it's time to plant, we separate those robust...

It's tiny but tasty. And almost all of the plant is edible. Each small stack is a ginger share. The bucket to the lower right contains the rhizomes for planting next season. The yield was about as much again as we planted. We're theorizing that letting it grow longer...

In the fall, people start asking "How was your garden this year? Must be just about put to bed, eh?" Not quite! Here's what continues in the garden: profusions of salad and leafy greens, herbs, and root veggies; beans, eggplants, peppers, tomatillos, zucchini, and...

Sometimes a perfect crop is ready for harvest on a perfect day. Here at the Garden at 485 Elm, we harvest all the winter squash at once. Then we count how many we have of each variety, divide it by the number of gardeners' households (this year: 17), and put them out...

The garden lives throughout the year. It sprouts in spring, grows lush in summer, wanes deliciously in fall, and subsides beneath the frozen earth in winter. Each phase has its beauty and place in the seasonal cycles. Now the garden is at peak productivity, and we are...

Experience the Garden at 485 Elm's eight-season-old collectively grown garden! Join us on Friday, August 13, from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at 485 Elm Street in Montpelier. Please walk or bike if you can; park cars in the driveway facing the garden to allow everyone space to...

Garlic and onions are among the five crops we harvest all at once and divide into shares. Unlike beans, greens, and peas, which continue producing as everyone harvests all they can eat, these crops are one and done. Shares are very generous! We laid out the garlic by...

Every season, the Garden at 485 Elm gives dozens of pounds of food to local organizations ensuring our neighbors have access to fresh, delicious local food. On a beautiful evening, we harvested basil, oregano, and thyme that went to the Montpelier Food Pantry for...

This gardener is surrounded by beets to the right, mint at lower left, and potatoes in the background. In the lower right, it's impossible to tell this early what flowers are coming up. That row is growing aster, Salpiglossis, snapdragons, Helenium, Heliopsis (false...