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2010 Garden Calendar & Special Events
Friends of Burlington Gardens
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We encourage you to bookmark this
page as updates and new events are added during the year.
Winter
January
2010
- Time to
order your seeds and plan ahead for
spring gardening!
- Order a quality Vermont
Indoor Garden in time for spring seed starting. FBG offers
six models
to choose from, all made in the U.S. from high quality materials and
sold at affordable prices.
February 2010
- February
13-15: NOFA
Vermont Winter Conference at the University of Vermont including
dozens of workshops for organic farmers and gardeners. FBG executive
director Jim Flint will present the workshop, "How to Start and Sustain
a Comunity-based Garden," Saturday, Feb.13 from 3:45 - 5:00 p.m..
March 2010
- March 3:
Town Meeting Day in Vermont - be sure to cast your vote!
Spring
- March 20:
9:30 a.m
to noon - Organic Vegetable
Gardening
101 Workshop - Robert E. Miller Community and Recreation
Center,
Burlington. Cosponsored by Burlington Area Community Gardens and
Friends of Burlington Gardens. Presented by Jim Flint. $15 Burlington
residents; $20 non residents. Pre-register by calling
Burlington Parks and Recreation at 864-0123. Free seeds for
participants.
- March
20: 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. - Community potluck
supper and film showing of The
Garden First United
Methodist Church
Fellowship Hall, 21 Buell Street, Burlington. This 2009 documentary
about the 14-acre South
Central Farm in Los Angeles follows the plight of group of urban
farmers to save their community garden from development. The film is
unrated and contains brief strong language. Admission
is free. Please bring your own place setting and a
dish to share for the potluck supper at 6 p.m. The showing at 7 p.m. is
cosponsored
by Friends of Burlington Gardens. All are welcome to attend the Vermont
premier of this Academy Award nominated documentary. For more
information email Jim
Flint or call 802-861-4769.
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April 2010
May 2010
- May 1: Green-up Day in Vermont.
Pitch in to
help cleanup gardens and neighborhoods. FBG will exhibit at the Green
Up Day tent at City Market in Burlington.

- May 8:
10th Annual Spring Plant Sale to support neighborhood community
gardening in
Burlington. Presented
by Grow Team ONE and FBG at
Roosevelt Park in Burlington, 9 a.m. - 4
p.m.
June 2010
- June 5
& 6: FBG Sweet
Potato Slip Sale at Red
Wagon Plants in Hinesburg! 10 a.m to 6
p.m. each day. Pick up some great plants for your garden; 100% of
proceeds from sweet potato sales support FBG's garden-based education
and outreach programs. Hundreds of slips to be sold!
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Summer
July 2010
- If you're
leaving for vacation, ask a friend to harvest your crops
and contribute surplus vegetables to support Plant a Row
for the Hungry. Visit your garden frequently and enjoy the bounty
of your efforts.
August 2010
- August 27: Kids and grownups --
bring the best
of your veggies and flowers to the Champlain Valley
Fair between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. Exhibit books are available
through the Fair Office if you call ahead earlier in the month.
Receive ribbons and cash premiums for exhibiting your garden produce!
- August
28: Face to face vegetable judging for youth garden
exhibits at the Champlain
Valley Fair. Judging sessions are at 1 p.m. for children ages 7 to 10,
and 3 p.m. for ages 11 to 14. Youth exhibitors who sign up for a
judging session will receive free admission to the fairgrounds on
August 28. For tips on exhibiting vegetables at the fair, click on http://web.extension.uiuc.edu/vegguide/exhibiting.cfm.
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Fall
September 2010
October 2010
- October
2: Cleanup work project at the Community Teaching Garden;
10 a.m. - noon
- October
16: Time to put your garden to bed and spread
fresh
compost for
next year.
- October
31: Happy Halloween to Vermont gardeners!
November 2010
- November
25:
On Thanksgiving Day, enjoy being with friends and family and reflecting
on the goodness of the earth and
the bounty of fresh wholesome food provided by Vermont farmers and
gardeners.
December 2010
- December
1: Friends of Burlington Gardens Annual Board Meeting
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Calendar and event listings for partner organizations
Gardener's
Supply Seminars: http://www.gardeners.com/seminars
Friends of the UVM Horticulture
Farm: http://www.friendsofthehortfarm.org/FOHFCalendar.html
Vermont Garden
Events / Perry's Perennial Pages:
http://www.uvm.edu/~pass/perry/events.html.
Branch Out Burlington: http://www.branchoutburlington.org/volunteer/calendar.htm
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Burlington
Gardens & the
Vermont Community
Garden Network
180 Flynn Avenue Studio 3
PO Box 4504
Burlington,
Vermont
05406-4504
802-861-GROW
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