Starr Farm Collective Garden

The inaugural Starr Farm Collective Garden season has come to a close.

This season marked the first growing season of the Starr Farm Collective Garden. Thirteen member gardeners transformed an overgrown perennial patch into a productive vegetable garden while building community. The weekly work shifts lead to abundant harvests, stories shared, a showstopper eggplant that grew into a pest-free, prolific producer, and hilarious moments of realizing that planting celery and parsley together can cause confusion during harvest time. We had huge success trialing the “lasagna garden” method in a particularly challenging section of the garden. During the fall, we (reluctantly yet respectfully) shared our harvests with the local deer population despite our fence mending and row cover efforts. There are so many triumphs, lessons, and friendships to bring with us into next year’s season. We are so grateful to the City of Burlington for awarding us the Conservation Legacy Fund Grant  that made this season possible and for this year’s team in trusting the process and contributing  the dedication needed to run a garden.

Stay tuned to hear updates on our collective gardening membership for 2025 – details coming soon!