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Friends of
Burlington Gardens & the Vermont Community Garden Network
creating,
enhancing, and preserving community gardens for all
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Community
Teaching Garden links
2010
CTG Application (Word doc.)
2010 CTG.2 Application (Word doc.)
Read quotes from 2009 CTG grads
2009 CTG You
Tube Video
CTG site
plan and design (pdf)
Frank Way Memorial Scholarship Fund
Community
Teaching Garden staff
Denise Quick is our new lead teacher for the 2010 Community Teaching
Garden. Denise is a UVM Extension Master Gardener, and a biology
teacher with the Community College of Vermont. Denise served as a
volunteer with the 2009 Community Teaching Garden program.
Colleen Hertz will be an assistant teacher for the Community
Teaching Garden in 2010. Colleen graduated from UVM in 2009 with a
Bachelor's degree in Environmental Studies. Colleen served as a
volunteer with the 2009 Community Teaching Garden program.
FBG executive director Jim Flint will serve as lead teacher for the
2010 CTG.2 Program.
Jim is the founder of the Community Teaching Garden. He developed the
CTG program and served as lead teacher from 2003 to 2009.
CTG
archives from recent years
2008 CTG photostory (pdf)
Read quotes from 2008 CTG grads
2007 CTG photostory (pdf)
Read quotes from 2007 CTG grads
2006 CTG photostory (pdf)
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2010
Community
Teaching Garden - a hands-on gardening course for adults
(early admission deadline April 2, 2010)
 The
Community Teaching Garden at Ethan Allen Homestead is a hands-on
gardening program
designed to teach beginners how to plant, cultivate, harvest, and
preserve fresh organic vegetables. Since
the program began in 2003, more than 100 participants have completed
the 22-week organic gardening course.
2010
classes will be held at the CTG site on Monday and Thursday evenings
from
May 3
to
September 27. Classes began at 7:00
p.m. in May, June, July, and August, and at 6:30 p.m. in
September.
 The
Community Teaching Garden is geared toward
adults ages 18 through seniors, with special consideration given to
gardeners
in limited income situations. Participants garden in
individual and group raised beds. Like the UVM Extension Master
Gardener program,
CTG graduates also make a volunteer commitment to use
their gardening
skills in service to the community.
The
2010 CTG course fee is $120 per
person if sharing a raised bed, or $200 per person for an individual
raised bed. The course fee includes 40 class
sessions of instruction, seeds, plants, supplies, water, use of garden
tools and raised beds, 4 special sessions, and all the delicious fresh
produce participants can grow.
To apply for the CTG, click on download
a 2010 CTG Application. Limited income applicants are
eligible for scholarships covering up to half of the course fee
through the Frank
W. Way Memorial Scholarship Fund.
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Burlington
Neighborhood Gardening Initiative
Throughout the year, FBG provides tools, materials, and planning
assistance to enable and empower individuals and groups to start and
sustain
neighborhood, youth, school, and community gardens.
Burlington gardens that have received support and technical assistance
from FBG include the Roosevelt Park Neighborhood Garden, the Buell
Street Neighborhood Garden, the Archibald Street Neighborhood Garden,
the Burlington Boys and Girls Club Garden, the Riverside Neighborhood
Garden, the Sara Holbrook Community Center Youth
Garden, and the McAuley Square Neighborhood Garden.
A site located on the
corner of North Street and Mansfield Avenue in Burlington supported a
community garden for more than 20 years prior to the construction of
the McAuley Square housing development. In 2003, FBG worked with
residents of McAuley Square to create a new neighborhood garden area
with 16 raised beds, fencing,
and an underground water system.
If you have an inspiration for a garden in your Burlington or Winooski
neighborhood, please contact FBG. FBG also maintains a garden tool bank
which makes free loans of tools
to groups involved in community greening and beautification projects.
Learn more via the links below:
Neighborhood gardens
in Burlington
Greenbelt
gardening in Burlington
Burlington Community Wildlife
Habitat Initiative
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Sponsors for
FBG's education and outreach programs
Grants
from
the Jane B. Cook 1992 Charitable Trust, Harris and Frances
Block Foundation, George W. Mergens Foundation, Morris and
Bessie Altman Foundation, and Ben and Jerry's Foundation have supported
FBG's outreach efforts to create, enhance, and preserve community-based
garden
sites that are accessible to underserved residents.
Grants and major gifts from the Sid and
Cecelia Lance
Family Foundation, the Vermont Community Foundation Sustainable Future
Fund, the Merchants Bank
Foundation, and Gardener's Supply have provided underlying support for
FBG's Community Teaching Garden program at Ethan Allen Homestead.
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Friends of
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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The
CTG.2 Program is an intermediate level gardening program open to 8
graduates of the Community Teaching Garden. The program takes
place
in the central area
of
the New Discovery Garden at Ethan Allen Homestead. Each CTG.2
participant shares one of the 18 foot diameter circular gardens..