The Community Teaching Garden is a hands-on 22-week course for beginning organic vegetable gardeners.  Students learn how to plant, cultivate, harvest, and preserve the harvest from their own plot and shared garden space in a cooperative learning environment.

Burlington classes are held twice a week from the second week in May through the first week in October at Ethan Allen Homestead (Monday and Thursday evenings) and Tommy Thompson Community Garden (Wednesday evenings and Saturday mornings).  The course fee is $220 ($130 for a half bed) and includes weekly instruction, seeds, plants, supplies, water, tools, individual and shared garden space, potlucks, and all the delicious fresh produce participants can grow and eat.  Also a once a week, instruction-only rate is available at Tommy Thompson, for those who already have community garden plots. Scholarships are available thanks to the Frank Way Memorial Scholarship Fund.  Registration deadline is March 22.

More information and an online application form are available at https://www.burlingtongardens.org/outreach.html.  For further questions, call (802) 861-4769 or email Libby Weiland, Program Manager, at libby@burlingtongardens.org.