Garden Events
Get the network involved by submitting your next event directly to our submission page. Webinars, courses, conferences and in-person events, recurring or one-time, all apply!
See what’s coming up on our Statewide Garden Calendar
Fund Your Garden
Need funding for your garden project? Visit our website for a regularly updated list of garden-related grants.
Find upcoming grants on our Garden Grants page
Connect with Fellow Garden Coordinators
Our closed Facebook group serves as a forum for your garden management questions, a platform to swap resources, and a place to share your story.
Join the conversation!
Improving Lands, Improving Lives
We are pleased to announce a new collaboration with New Farms for New Americans (NFNA)! Improving Lands, Improving Lives is a 3-year project to enhance and facilitate a comprehensive agriculture program on food systems, nutrition and a first-ever leadership and mentorship training program for new American farmers. VCGN will work with NFNA and farmers enrolled in their program to develop curriculum and lead garden and nutrition education for the new peer education program.
Read more
Get Involved, Get Inspired
Planting Hope: Vermont Victory Gardens
It wasn’t just the seasoned gardeners and long-running community gardens that got to planting this spring. New gardens and first-time gardeners took on the endeavor in the wake of the pandemic. 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, of a growing food crisis.
Read on about the Master Gardener project Vermont Victory Gardens and hear about the wonderful work happening across the state– nuggets of wisdom and inspiration from six of this year’s Vermont Victory Garden sites, plus some tips for connecting with your local food shelf.
Connecting in the “Off Season”
Community Connections is a new program to expand VCGN membership and to encourage connections, storytelling and discussion of garden and related topics with people throughout Vermont. We will send thought provoking articles, stories, documentaries and other resources, then virtually gather to talk about them. Community connections conversations will happen on the 3rd Thursday of each month, from 6-7pm via Zoom.
Click here for details and registration
Network Asks & Opportunities
Conscious Homestead – Winooski, VT
Candice Taylor, a Winooski resident, 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 the land and ultimately to ourselves and others. Candice’s vision is to create a wholeness center and gathering space for all seasons where BIPOC individuals can get together and heal.
Read on to learn more about this unique project.
Agricultural Literacy Week 2020
Tune in for this week-long (virtual) celebration to inform, educate and create community around the topic of resiliency in all of its forms. Each night, November 16th through 19th, will feature a webinar bringing together the voices of our community: farmworker rights group Migrant Justice, Missisquoi Abenaki chef Jessee Lawyer, students of gender studies and agriculture at Bennington College, and organic farmers building soil health and feeding their communities. All events are free and open to the public. Click here for the registration links & full workshop descriptions.
Join the Movement!
Gardens for Hope & Health
In this uncertain time, gardens help heal by providing hope, resiliency and food! Many more Vermonters are seeking help to start gardens and we are working to provide resources for people at home and in the community. If you can, please make a donation today so more people can grow their own food and build healthier futures.
Since 2001, the Vermont Community Garden Network has worked with hundreds of community and school groups to start, sustain, and grow gardens, building strong local food systems and vibrant educational sites.
Contact us – We’d love to hear from you!
Email us: first name (at) vcgn.org
Michelle Gates, Executive Director
Libby Weiland, Statewide Network Coordinator
Carolina Lukac, Garden Education Manager
Phoebe Perron, Membership Coordinator (AmeriCorps VISTA)
Vermont Community Garden Network | www.vcgn.org
