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Community Gardening News 2007
Tilling the Soil - 2007
This has been an inspiring year for Montgomery Community Gardens. Emily Curtis-Murphy selected seeds and created garden plans for a teaching garden at Little Rock Pond and the school garden at Breezy Acres Farm. She started the seeds and tended the plants at the Welcome Center with grow lights provided by Gardener's Supply Company. Emily's extensive knowledge, experience and dedication to growing vegetables played a significant part in making this first full year of the program very successful.
Rolf Anderson, Sherman Webster & Nate Osowiecki put up a 12' x 20' greenhouse at the High Ponds Farm. Debbie Benjamin, Alice Smolinsky & Rolf Anderson built wooden greenhouse tables modeled after a design from the White Flower Farm.
Mark Brouillette generously hosted community gardens at his Breezy Acres Farm on the Fuller Bridge Road. Mark tilled manure into the garden soil at Breezy Acres Farm and compost from Diamond Hill Farm in Sheldon into the new garden plots at the High Ponds Farm.
Installing Irrigation - 2007
Sherman Webster installed an irrigation system at the Breezy Acres Farm with a grant from the Vermont Community Garden Network. This important addition to the community garden ensured that our plants would have sufficient water throughout the growing season.
Allotment Garden
at Breezy Acres Farm - 2007 Montgomery residents rented garden plots at the Breezy Acres Farm and grew their own food. This was the first time in Montgomery that residents without tillable soil on their land could grow their own food elsewhere in town. Several more people are interested in renting a plot in 2008. MCG will expand the number of plots to meet the demand.
Harvest Sampler
from Breezy Acres Farm - 2007
Breezy Acres Farm
Community Garden
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Gardening Education 2007
Montgomery Elementary School
Farm to School Program - 2007
On May 23 Debbie Benjamin and Rolf Anderson joined Sara Marshall and her 6th and 7th Grade Science Classes. We learned about each of the seven ingredients in the Vermont Composting Company Fort Vee potting mix and how each one is important in the germination and growth of seeds to plants. Everyone then sowed seeds of vegetables, herbs and flowers that were eventually planted at the Breezy Acres Farm and at the raised garden beds at the school. The classes tended the young plants indoors until early June and then helped to plant them at the Breezy Acres Farm and into the school beds.
Planting at
Breezy Acres Farm - 2007
Food from these vegetables went to the Montgomery Elementary School for school lunches. Montgomery Community Gardens grew many cucumbers, pumpkins, and several varieties of tomatoes.
See Calendar of Events for a list of education programs and other gardening related activities.
Native Plants Garden
at Bear Paw Pond - 2007
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The Friends of Montgomery Community Gardens wishes to thank Mark Brouillette and William Cabana for hosting the community garden at
Breezy Acres Farm.
We are also extremely grateful to
Rachel & Abe Gomel
for their support of the community garden and gardening education programs in 2007.
Thank you !
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Harvest Sampler
from Breezy Acres Farm - 2007
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Photo Gallery 2006 - 2007
Montgomery School Garden
2007
Montgomery Elementary Students
at Breezy Acres Farm - 2006
Weeding & Watering
at Breezy Acres Farm - 2006
Butterfly Garden
at Bear Paw Pond - 2007
Allotment Garden
at Breezy Acres Farm - 2007
Harvest Sampler
at High Ponds Farm - 2007
Gardening Education Programs for children ages infant to 12 and their parents took place twice each month from May through September. Families learned from experienced gardeners and educators about soils and seeds, transplants and compost, garden structures, weeding, watering and maintenance, garden pests, nature's garden, harvesting, cooking and other uses for plants.
Thanks to Jade Kelly Dixon-Boles of Montgomery Success by Six for coordinating the programs.
Thanks to Sharon Anderson, Debbie Benjamin & Megan Martinson for leading the programs.
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