Garden Events
Get the network involved by submitting your next event directly to our submission page. Webinars, courses, conferences, one-time or reoccurring events, all apply!
Fund Your Garden
Visit our website for a regularly updated list of garden-related grants.
Connect with Fellow Garden Coordinators
Our closed Facebook group is a forum for your garden management questions, and a platform to swap resources and share stories.
Community-based Garden Organizing Training:
Back in March due to popular demand!
If you missed VCGN’s February online training series, it’s not too late! We’re offering it again starting March 11th (4 consecutive Thursdays) due to popular demand.
Whether you’re just starting out or supporting an existing garden project, gather tips and tools, swap ideas, and plan for the season!
Please register by Sun, March 7th to reserve your spot!
Day in the Dirt – April 24 – May 1, 2021
Can volunteers help at your school or community garden? Need money to help pay for a project or basic materials?
Become a host site for Day in the Dirt!
Step 1: Describe what needs to be done (a specific project or just early season chores)
Step 2: Set a goal and support fundraising – your garden will receive 50% of team proceeds
Step 3: Prepare for and supervise a work day at your garden on April 24th and/or May 1st
VCGN helps with promotion, volunteer registration, communication & fundraising, webinar training for a successful work day (including safety guidelines for groups during COVID), and prizes for fundraisers. You get enthusiastic volunteers and money to use for whatever your garden needs! Learn more here.
Get Involved, Get Inspired
We need your input!!
Tell us about the places you frequent and the people you turn to to help make your garden grow each season. These can be companies or organizations from which you purchase supplies or ask for donations, people who offer services, lending libraries, swap events, or even places where you salvage materials.
We’re building a list to share and would love to here from you. Help us out by filling out this form – the sooner the better so we can share as people prepare for the season!
Thank you for sharing!
The VCGN Crew
Questions? Additional ideas? Contact Libby: libby (@) vcgn.org
Need seeds? Join our swap or get an assorted bundle of seeds from us.
Thanks to the generosity of our friends at High Mowing Organic Seeds and Gardener’s Supply, we have seeds to share. Surplus seed packets from the last growing season are viable and available to gardeners in need of quality seeds. Request them here
Like so many things, COVID has forced us to go virtual for the much anticipated Seed Swap. The good news? Our new BTV Seed Swap can reach more people and be season long!
VCGN Membership for Individuals & Organizations
Join us! By belonging to VCGN, you are part of something bigger than your own home or community garden. You are joining other members to invest in better access to gardening for all and building deeper connections with gardeners in Vermont.
Network Asks & Opportunities
Funding, Planning Support & Training for School Gardens
Lots of opportunities coming up in the Farm to School world!
The Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets has opened a request for proposals for their Child Nutrition Implementation Grants until March 19, 2021. More info available on this webpage.
VT FEED is accepting applications for their 2021-22 Northeast Virtual Farm to School IN-stitute & Learning Community–a year-long opportunity for school, district, or early childhood teams to receive coaching, professional development, and networking support. Apply by March 31, 2021.
Join the conversation during one or more of Vermont Farm to School Network’s Webinar Series for Educators. Next up, March 10th: Trauma Informed Practices & Farm to School.
Plant a Tree in Your Garden with Rewild Vermont
350VT’s Rewild Vermont is organizing across the state to plant 100 thousand native, fruit, and nut trees in Vermont by 2022. We are now looking for places to plant trees!
If you are interested in planting or working with us to plant trees on your land – either native trees to provide ecosystem services or fruit/nut trees for the community – contact jaiel@350vt.org to get involved and to help sow the seeds for a vibrant & livable future.
Soil Health and Community Resilience: Stories from the North
Connecting healthy soil, people, projects, skills, and ideas to increase community resilience in the North with a six-event webinar series, hosted by the Vermont Healthy Soils Coalition, the Littleton Food Co-op, and over 30 local community organizations and businesses.
The events will be held on six alternating Wednesday nights from 6:30 to 8:00 pm from February through April 2021.
Click here for details & registration
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 communities and schools 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
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Vermont Community Garden Network | PO Box 713, Essex, VT 05453