Honoring Seeds & Their Stories

Seed swapping has long served as a way to not only gather the seeds you need for the coming season, but more significantly as a way to share and preserve culture. When we share and plant each other’s seeds we honor the food and the grower and bring their stories to life. Even in these […]

Join our Perennial Club!

Now is the best time to join as all monthly gifts in 2020 will be matched by a good friend of VCGN – doubling your impact! Make a long-term difference through a monthly gift.  Join our Perennial Club with an investment of $12 per month and we’ll plant a berry bush at a school or housing site […]

New to VCGN?

You’ve come to the right place for help growing veggies – in shared spaces or your own backyard! Bookmark and visit often for tips, resources and conversations about gardening. Receive weekly emails about what’s happening in the garden throughout the season (planting, composting, pests, harvests & more). Sign up for our monthly newsletter with stories, […]

Conscious Homestead – Winooski, VT

“I care about taking care of myself, about the earth, but also taking care of each other,”says Candice Taylor, a Winooski resident who is starting up a new community garden called Conscious Homestead in her backyard. The mission of the Conscious Homestead is to promote land based learning that centers and decolonizes our relationship to […]

Planting Hope: Vermont Victory Gardens

Many people turned to gardening this season as a simple act of hope–to plant a seed is to bring life. Others sought out a new hobby to combat the idleness of this “pause” and commune in the great outdoors. And many more saw the potential of gardens to address freshly exposed realities, long-lived and new, […]

COVID-19 Guidelines & Resources for Safe Community Gardening

Stay up-to-date on the latest resources and news regarding the COVID-19 virus by visiting VCGN’s Facebook page and/or joining our Facebook group. Check out the following guidelines and scroll to the bottom of this page for more resources to help you navigate this challenging time. These guidelines are based on current information we have on […]

Toolshed Tips: Bringing Your Classroom Outdoors

This challenging return to the school year brings inevitable worries for everyone involved–students, parents, teachers, administrators. In the world of outdoor education and garden learning we see an incredible opportunity to bring learning outside not only to address social distancing, but also give students the rich experience of learning from the outdoor world. However, to […]

Become a VCGN Member!

We depend on membership to sustain our growing network! Your annual membership supports training & education, technical assistance, resources and networking opportunities for gardeners across the state, and is an investment in community health.

Garden Spotlight: Charlotte Central School

This year has been different for so many reasons, but various things have recently fallen into place for the Charlotte School garden and it feels like there is more interest, need and use for the garden than ever.   Due to a combination of several things: greater need in the community, the food shelf open every week […]

Part-time, seasonal job starting June 15!

We are hiring for the position of Regional Garden Coordinator to support resident gardeners at seven affordable housing sites in Chittenden County. Read the full job description here.

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