Archive for September, 2010

A photo story of nine Vermont school and community gardens
located along the Route 7 and Route 22A corridors. Photos taken on August 13, 2010 by Jim Flint, Friends of Burlington Gardens.

A photo story of 20 school and community gardens in Northern Vermont. Photos taken on August 24, 2010 by Jim Flint, Friends of Burlington Gardens.

Celebrate the harvest season and the agricultural heritage of Burlington’s Intervale on Thursday, Sept. 23. The free, family-friendly Heritage Harvest Celebration features an open house at the Abenaki Heritage Garden from 3-5:30 p.m. with clay pot cooking demonstrations and tastings with Charlie Paquin, corn grinding with City Market, and garden tours. The day continues with a 6 p.m. Slow Food Vermont potluck and the Heritage Harvest Hoedown barn dance at 7 p.m.($5). For more information, visit www.intervale.org.

• Are you interested in animals, science, and the environment?
• Are you curious about teaching at ECHO and in the community?
• Are you a Freshman or Sophomore in high school and live in the Burlington area?
• Do you want to get involved?

If you answered yes to one or more of these questions E-Team could be just the program for you- check it out!

The Healthy City Youth Farm is in the middle of its first successful season at Hunt Middle School. Summer months were full of fun and exploration as 15 middle and high school students earned wages while pulling weeds and trying new foods. Now that school is in full swing, we are organizing weekly taste tests in the school cafeteria highlighting produce from the 1/2 acre farm.  Want to join us?

We need help farming, cooking, and sampling the produce during the school day. Please be in touch!

Jenn McGowan, 310-9506