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When the Uprooted Put Down Root

From the New York Times:

At the Saturday farmer’s market in City Heights, a major portal for refugees, Khadija Musame, a Somali, arranges her freshly picked pumpkin leaves and lablab beans amid a United Nations of produce, including water spinach grown by a Cambodian refugee and amaranth, a grain harvested by Sarah Salie, who fled rebels [...]

Funding for School and Community Gardens available

Thanks to the VT Community Garden Network for sharing these grant opportunities with Common Good Vermont. Have something you’d like to share with Vermont’s nonprofit community? Get in touch – Coordinator@CommonGoodVT.org, (802) 862 – 1645 ext. 21

Sodexo School Engagement Grants – Aug. 15. Deadline

Who May Apply: K-12 teachers and others working with K-12 students [...]

Garden Plots Available at Ratcliffe Park

Each plot is
9′ X 12′, and rental is $20 for the season. To sign up, go to this website:
http://wrjgarden.heroku.com or contact Katie Williams at
wrjcommunitygarden@gmail.com You can also call: 802/281-4433. Payments can
be submitted to Kye Cochran at the Upper Valley Co-op, as a check or cash.

Gardener’s Supply 2011 Seminar Serie

Seminars are held weekly at the Gardener’s Supply headquarters at 128 Intervale Road in Burlington. The cost for most seminars is $10, with pre-registration required. The organic gardening workshop on Saturday, March 19 with Charlie Nardozzi is an excellent session for community, home, and school gardeners. For more information, please visit:

<http://www.gardeners.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-Gardeners-Site/default/Link-Page?id=retail_cat_seminars>

Tidbits - CSA Farm Shares

Valley Food & Farm Tidbits

The Latest on Local Agriculture

January 26, 2011

This edition underwritten by:

Co-op Food Stores

Connecting People to Farmers and Incredible Local Food Since 1999

Marketplace • Events & Workshops • News • Donate

S P O T L I G H T::..

Farmers have created so many types of CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) [...]

School Community Garden Mini-grant Workshops Planned

Friends of Burlington Gardens has announced that forty $1000
mini-grants will be awarded this spring to groups developing or
expanding school community gardens in Vermont. The deadline for
submitting online applications is March 15. Mini-grant award
recipients will be announced on April 12.

Prospective mini-grant applicants are encouraged to register for
one of three mini-grant planning workshops. The workshops will
be held [...]

Calling Gardeners in WRJ Area

Community Gardening – Look forward to hearing about work parties and opportunities to increase our local community supported gardens. If you are interested in being a member of the Perennial Care Committee please contact Karen at karunaspirit@gmail.com

(Transition Town WRJ)

Putney Community Garden

Photos from the Celebration of Gratitude at Community Gardens

http://putneyfoodcoop.blogspot.com/2010/08/photos-from-celebration-of-gratitude-at.html

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Community Gardens Spring Up Around VT

From VPR News, Tuesday, 09/07/10 7:50am

http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/88757/

VT Community Gardens Slide Show

From VT Community Garden Network news, 9/21/2010

A visit to 20 VCGN gardens in Northern Vermont

August 24 was a beautiful day for site visits to gardens at:

Underhill Central School

Cambridge Elementary

Waterville Elementary

Eden Central School

Lowell Graded School

Jay Westfield Elementary

Troy School

Newport Town School

Coventry Village School

Gardner Park Community Garden (Newport)

Derby Community Garden.

Orleans Elementary

Barton Senior Center Garden

Glover Village Elementary

Hardwick Community Garden

Morristown [...]

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