UPCOMING EVENTS!
Host a "FRESH"
House Party
Montgomery Victory Gardens has copies of this terrific
independent food documentary, and we'll help you organize
a screening of any size. Watch
trailers here, and contact us info@montgomeryvictorygardens.org
for more info.
PUBLICATIONS
Tips for Starting a Faith-Based Community
Garden [pdf]
'The New Food Revolution," May,
2009 [pdf]
"Return to the Garden," October, 2009
[pdf]
"The Future of Food and Farming, Part I,"
April, 2010 [pdf]
"The Future of Food and Farrming, Part II,"
May, 2010 [pdf]
Testimony to the MD House Ways and Means
Committee," February, 2011 [pdf]
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Montgomery
Victory Gardens
Advisory
Board
Alexis
Baden-Mayer
Political Director,
Organic Consumers Association
Merdith
Epstein
Networking Coordinator,
Montgomery Victory Gardens
Susan
Harris
Garden Activist &
Writer
Washington, DC Master Gardener
Sustainable Gardening
Niki Lewis
Green Earth Goods
Montgomery Countryside
Alliance
Erica Smith
Montgomery County
Master Gardener
Coordinator Emeritus,
Grow It Eat It
Tim Willard
Environmental Activist,
Transition Movement
Woody Woodroof
Executive Director
and Founder,
Red Wiggler Farm
Gordon Clark
Project Director
MVG Fiscal Sponsor
Organic
Consumers Association
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Montgomery County
Food Council In Formation!
Under the leadership of the County's Office of Community
Partnerships, Montgomery Countryside Alliance and growingSOUL,
Montgomery Victory Gardens and others, the newest food council
in the United States is being formed - right here in Montgomery
County!
The mission of the Montgomery County Food Council is to bring
together a diverse representation of stakeholders in a public
and private partnership to improve the environmental, economic,
social and nutriional health of Montgomery County through
the creation of a robust, local, sustainable food system.
MVG currently serves on the Advisory Board, and the full council
is being assembled and should meet for the first time in February,
2012. Needless to say, we are thrilled about this new initiative,
and we'll keep you posted.
For more information on the new Food Council, including
how you or members of your community can participate, please
see the Montgomery County Food Council website
here.
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Montgomery Victory Gardens Wins Community
Hero Award |
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We Won!
Our Campaign to Bring Vegetable Gardens to Montgomery County
Public Schools
Has Succeeded!
We are absolutely thrilled
to announce that after a year-plus long campaign, the Montgomery
County Public School System has made it official - school
vegetable gardens are now allowed on public school property!
Click here to read the MVG
press release
Click here to read the article
in the Montgomery County Gazette
How did all this happen? Click here to read our original
public letter to Superintendent Weast demanding that vegetable
gardens be allowed (and encouraged!), and then check out this
short
history of the campaign posted on the
Master Gardeners "Grow It Eat It" blog.
Many, many thanks to Montgomery County's Master Gardener
Association, the 33 organizations that signed our open letter
to Dr. Weast, and all the individuals who wrote letters, made
phone calls, sent emails, spoke at public meetings, or supported
us with a contribution - this was truly a community effort!
And now, the next step - let's get those gardens up
and running!
Click
here to give a tax-deductible contribution to support
the campaign for school gardens in Montgomery County!
A full list of 2010 - 2011 media coverage can be found here
Read MVG Testimonials
here
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Do you want to eat and celebrate locally grown food,
and support the people who grow it?
Do you love food gardening - or want to start?
Do you want to get more fresh, local food in our public schools,
and make sure everyone in our
county has enough to eat?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you are in the
right place! Montgomery Victory Gardens is a new non-profit
project devoted to creating a more vigorous, self-reliant and
sustainable local food shed here in Montgomery County, Maryland.
Check out the services below, sign
up for our award winning weekly update on local food news and
events, and send us your feedback and ideas to help our community
grow! Visit
our Update Archive here.
Montgomery County
is a
beautiful, fertile region.
Let's use it to grow our own food.
- Online materials and classes - Maryland Master
Gardeners' "Grow
It, Eat It" program
- Additional online materials, including videos - National
Gardening Association
- Trouble-shooting hotlines: Call Montgomery County
Master Gardeners at 301-590-9650 or email to mgmont [at] umd.edu;
visit the diagnostic information center at Home
and Garden Information Center , or call 800-342-2507 from
8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Monday through Friday
- Community Gardens - Montgomery
County Parks Department
- Start a Community Garden - American
Community Gardening Association, and MVG's
"Tips
on Starting a Faith Based Community Garden" (Starting
a community garden takes some work up front, but the rewards
are great - and given the limited amount of community garden
space currently available in Montgomery County, it's well worth
the effort!)
- Montgomery County Farmers Markest - Maryland
Department of Agriculture
- Subscribe to a Community Supported Agriculture (CSAs) -
Montgomery
Countryside Alliance
- Find other local and sustainably grown foods (From
restaurants, creameries, and butchers to chocolate and gourmet
vinegar!) - Local
Harvest and
Eat Well Guide
- Learn sustainable agriculture while earning Student Service
Learning credits - Red
Wiggler Farm
- Contribute produce to those in need - "Grow
a Row" for the Manna
Food Center. (Fresh produce is one of the most
requested items at Manna, and they will gladly take your extra
fresh garden fruit and vegetables. Consider growing a dedicated
row, or starting a dedicated garden at your house of worship
or community center.)
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