The Landry Park Greenhouse Grand Opening will take place on Saturday, March 22. It is a free, family-friendly event and we hope to see you there! Learn more about the greenhouse project here.
Join a collective garden! 2025 registration is now open
January 16, 2025 by
Seedsong Collective Garden and Starr Collective Garden are two member-run collective gardens managed in partnership with Vermont Garden Network (VGN). Registration for each garden is now open! Read all about collective garden sites, membership, and fees here.
Growing Together at Beacon Apartments
July 5, 2022 by
I’m Sharon Newman, Garden Coordinator for Chittenden County affordable housing, a partnership between VGN and Champlain Housing Trust (CHT). One site I have spent a lot of time at this season is Beacon, permanent housing for homeless residents, located in South Burlington. Back in March, as I did my pre-season check in, I noticed that the winter […]
Birth of a Giving Garden
July 5, 2021 by
By Gordon Clark, Coordinator, Vermont Victory Gardens Inspired by a Hunger Council meeting early in 2019, some residents in the Village of Barton, Vermont, close to the Canadian border in Orleans County, decided to build a few raised beds for local residents in need. There were no takers. Issues of time, experience, skills and tools […]
Regeneration Corps
February 1, 2021 by
A conversation with Mindy Blank, Executive Director, Community Resilience Organizations This actually gives me a lot of hope for the future because agriculture is something that can realistically be regenerative—obviously, it will take a lot of work for regenerative agriculture to become a common practice, but it can be done. Regeneration Corps participant from Sharon […]
Food Shelf Giving Gardens: Flipping the Narrative
October 14, 2020 by
Community gardens partnering with food shelves to determine what to grow and how to donate it is an essential step in getting fresh food to those who need it. In the Northeast Kingdom and the Mad River Valley, two food shelves are flipping that narrative by reaching out to their local communities to see what […]
Master Gardeners: A call to action
October 14, 2020 by
The UVM Extension Community Horticulture Program (Master Gardener & Composter) trains volunteers and uses research-based gardening information to help all Vermonters improve their gardening, leadership and environmental stewardship skills. How the program works: After completing a 16-week online course, trainees become volunteer Interns. To transition from an Intern to a Certified Master Gardener (EMG), trainees […]
A Community of Gardens Bloom
October 14, 2020 by
Stamford VT Seed Savers – Stamford, VT Helen Fields and her husband, Stephen Greene, are both long-time advocates and organizers for bringing gardens and garden-based education into the communities where they live and work. The couple’s most recent project is the Stamford VT Seed Savers, a local garden education program, growing and seed saving at […]
“Billow the Sails”
October 14, 2020 by
Malletts Bay Congregational Church – Colchester, VT Dan Dougherty had been trying to get his church to start a community garden on excess land the church owns for years, but unsuccessfully. “I had seen an article in Seven Days about Victory Gardens and it was like BAM! Most of our congregation will be able to […]
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