“Growing Healthy Food, People and Communities”
The USDA has created a “People’s Garden” at their headquarters on the National Mall in Washington. This is a sustainable landscape with an organic garden, a kitchen garden, rain gardens, a bat house, a “Three Sisters” garden, and more. They have a spot for a farmer’s market, too. Good job, USDA!
Brochure on the Garden (PDF, 1.3 Mb)
The Upper Valley Localvore group visited our gardens on Sunday, August 30th. They sent along these pictures from their visit.
Good luck to the Canillas Community Garden at CCBA! These new gardens are at 1 Taylor Street in Lebanon, NH behind Eldridge Field.
They are having their inauguration on August 31.
Their Committee is made up of Polly Gould, Helen Brody, Rebecca Perkins, Pat McGovern and Patti Friedman (CCBA Liaison).
On August 6, 2009, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today encouraged Americans to connect with the land, the food it grows and their local communities by proclaiming August 23-29, National Community Gardening Week.
We have been asked by the Upper Valley Localvore group to open up our gardens for “self-guided tours” on Sunday, August 30 between 3 and 5 pm. Our garden will be one of several gardens in the Upper Valley Localvore Edible Gardens tour. The news item is shown below.
Sunday August 30th
3:00 p.m.
45 East Wheelock Street
Hanover, NH
603-643-1503As a finale to NH Eat Local Month, UV Localvores invite you to visit two vegetable gardens on East Wheelock Street in Hanover this Sunday, August 30th at 3:00 p.m. One garden demonstrates how to get a great veggie yield from a small south-facing front yard and the use of cold frames to extend the season. The other will fire your imagination as to making a garden child-friendly and fun. All ages welcome to join us outside rain or shine. Stay for light refreshments. All are welcome to do a self-guided tour of the Hanover Community Gardens on Reservoir Road (Hanover) after seeing the East Wheelock gardens.
Hanover NH Community Gardens 