Supporting community and school gardens in Vermont.
Date: Saturday, April 19 Time: 2:00 to 3:00pm Location: Greenhouse at Landry Park, Winooski. The greenhouse is located in the Landry Park Community Garden, behind Myer’s Memorial Pool. The entrance gate is on the right-hand side of the pool complex. Workshop description: Microgreens are young seedlings harvested less than 21 days after germination. They are easy to grow […]
Discover a season of learning, growing, and community at the Greenhouse at Landry Park.
Volunteer with us to support local gardens, help at events, or join a committee working to strengthen food security across Vermont.
Spring has sprung and our Veducation Van is back on the road!
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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