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Community
Teaching Garden Program at Ethan Allen Homestead
* The 2012 program is almost full - please call to register: (802) 861-4769 *
 The
Community Teaching Garden at Ethan Allen Homestead is a hands-on
gardening program
for beginning organic gardeners. Participants learn how to plant, cultivate, harvest, and
preserve fresh vegetables in a fun and supportive learning environment.
Classes are held at the CTG site on Monday and Thursday evenings, with instruction on Mondays and independent garden work and mentoring on Thursdays. Formal instruction runs through the month of August. September brings earlier class times, and twice weekly mentoring and group work. 2012 Program Schedule
To learn more about the CTG program, click the link to the 2010
CTG YouTube video.
The CTG
course fee is $130 per
person if sharing a raised bed, or $220 per person for an individual
raised bed. The course fee includes 44 class sessions of instruction,
seeds, plants, supplies, water, use of garden
tools and raised beds, 3 garden potlucks, and all the delicious fresh
produce participants can grow and eat. Limited income applicants can
apply for scholarship assistance to cover
up to half
of the CTG course fee thanks to the Frank Way Memorial Scholarship Fund.
CTG.2
program at the New Discovery Garden
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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
graduates
of the Community Teaching Garden. The CTG.2 program takes
place
in the central area
of
the New Discovery Garden at Ethan Allen Homestead. 
Community
Teaching Garden archives from recent years