
Friends of Burlington Gardens has received a $10,000 award
from the Vermont Community Foundation's Successful Communities grant
round to support the development of new community gardens in Vermont
towns and cities that currently lack community garden sites.
Friends of Burlington Gardens will offer technical assistance and
$5,000
in mini-grants to establish ten
allotment
style community garden sites that provide vegetable garden plots
for Vermonters. Mini-grant funding will support new community
garden
sites opening spring 2009.
For the fall 2008 mini-grant cycle, six programs have been awarded $500
mini-grants. The
recipients are: Morgan Spring Community Garden (Bennington),
Mcrae Farm Community Garden (Colchester),
Huntington
Community Garden, Newport Community Garden, St. Albans
Community Garden, and Vergennes Community
Garden.
Please note: Funding
is currently available to award four additional $500 mini-grants
accompanied with free technical assistance. The four mini-grants will
be awarded on a rolling basis as applications are received. Please see
instructions
below for obtaining a mini-grant application form:
How
to apply for a 2008-09
Successful Community Gardens mini-grant
Step
One: Form a community garden steering committee in your
Vermont town or city. The steering committee must include at least
three unrelated Vermonters filling the leadership roles of chairperson,
secretary,
and treasurer. For sustainability, at least two committee leaders must
be interested in having a plot in a new community garden.
Step Two:
Contact Jim Flint,
executive director of Friends of Burlington Gardens via
email or by phone
(802-861-4769) to indicate your group's interest in starting a new
community
garden in your Vermont city or town. If your proposed community garden
meets eligibility criteria, a mini-grant application will be e-mailed
to your steering committee chairperson.