This Month In The Garden

Water Conservation Tips

Municipalities increasing water rates to cover aging infrastructure upgrades, unpredictable weather events from devastating flooding to drought all combine to make the intricacies of watering your garden sometimes feel like a scientific hurdle. VGN recently presented a Burlington Area Community Garden webinar on water best practices in a garden. We discussed tips like how to tell if your garden needs water, proper timing for watering your garden, mulching with straw, using rain barrels, and more. 

Click here to view the slides with presenter’s notes that include links to some of our favorite hoses, watering cans and other tools.

Succession Sowing Workshop June 11th

As part of our partnership with the City of Winooski and our Northeast SARE grant funding, we are continuing to offer local education in our outdoor classroom; the Greenhouse at Landry Park. Join us! FREE!

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Mulches Workshop

June 18th

Our 4th in the series of Climate Resilience through Nature-based solutions is all about Mulches; focusing on how to Garden Like a Farmer.

Workshops are FREE thanks to sponsorship by the City of Burlington Conservation Legacy Fund.

Registration helps us gauge participant numbers and in case of weather or last minute updates we can contact you.

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Spring Plant Giveaway Success!

People were lined up outside the Greenhouse at Landry Park gates early on Saturday morning of May 23rd. In under 2 hours, 1500+ plants went home with 250+ community members .

One of our grant projects for the 2026 growing season focuses on growing culturally meaningful crops to support access to traditional foods for immigrant communities in Winooski and Burlington. It is funded by Northeast Sustainable Agriculture and Education.

70% of the plants given away to community members were hard to source culturally-significant crops. See the 56 varieties we're experienced with in our cultural crop guide.

Thank you!

Shifting Seasons: Phenology in the Garden

We've been observing many natural indicators of spring; frost, blooms, bird migration and nesting. The spring of 2026 arrived late...almost a full 3 weeks late.

This is making us adapt planting timetables and be more climate resilient than ever in our gardens.

Closely observing nature and choosing bio-regionally adapted cultivars are tools we employ.

Learn more about other phenological timing methods.



Solar-powered Veggie Van for Sale

With the loss of our Federal SNAP-Ed contract, we have discontinued our nutrition education program. Our custom van is set up with a solar-powered induction cooktop and all the nutrition demonstration accessories to take a mobile classroom on the road. Contact t@vtgardens.org for more info.

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