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UPCOMING EVENTS

"Winter Prep for the Summer Garden," free presentation by Montgomery Master Gardeners - Wednesday, January 13, 7pm at the Poolesville Library. Contact the library for registration.

Future Harvest, the 2010 conference of The Chesapeake Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture -
Friday and Saturday, January 15 & 16 in Shepherdstown, WV. For more info and to register, click here.

Community Gardens Networking Day
- Thursday, February 4, from 9:00 am - 3:00 pm at Brookside Gardens in Wheaton. For more information call 301-650-2635, or to click here to register online.

"How Does Your Garden Grow?" Free talk on vegetable gardening by Cindy Brown
- Saturday, February 6, 10-11:30am at Brookside Gardens in Wheaton.

Master Gardener Classes
Registration for Montgomery County's 2010 Master Gardener training program is happening now, first come-first served. Click here for a registration application.

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]

Noble Farming -- Rebel with a Cause [pdf]



Montgomery Victory Gardens
Advisory Board


Alexis Baden-Mayer
Political Director,
Organic Consumers Association

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

* Organization for identification purposes only




Fiscal Sponsor

Organic Consumers Association

Organic Consumers Association
 

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 weekly update on local food news, 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.


  • Access easy-to-use online materials and classes to learn food gardening - Maryland Master Gardeners' "Grow It, Eat It" program (Fall and winter are a great time to start planning your garden for the coming spring!)

  • Find additional online food gardening materials - National Gardening Association

  • Call or email gardening hotlines: Montgomery Master Gardeners - 301-590-9650, mgmont [at] umd.edu or Home and Garden Information Center - 800-342-2507 between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m., Monday through Friday (You can also find diagnostic information online at the Home and Garden Information Center website)
     
  • COMING SPRING, 2010! Join an existing Community Garden

  • Start a Community Garden - American Community Gardening Association (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!)

  • COMING SPRING, 2010! Share yards with a neighbor to create a garden

  • Find a local Farmers Market - Maryland Department of Agriculture

  • Subscribe to a Community Supported Agriculture (CSAs) - Montgomery Countryside Alliance

  • Eat at local organic/sustainable restaurants, buy at creameries, butchers and co-ops - Eat Well Guide

  • Learn sustainable agriculture while earning Student Service Learning credits - Red Wiggler Farm 

  • Contribute produce to those in need in our county - "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.)



Please click here to make a 100% tax-deductible contribution to Montgomery Victory Gardens.

Or to give a contribution by mail, make your check out to "Organic Consumers Association" (our fiscal sponsor) and mail to the Montgomery Victory Gardens address below.

THANK YOU!

To get one of our colorful "Montgomery Victory Gardens" lawn signs contact us at: info [[ at ]] montgomeryvictorygardens.org
or call 301-801-3406



     
 
Montgomery Victory Gardens
822 Gist Avenue, Suite 100
Silver Spring, MD 20910
301-801-3406


info [[ at ]]
montgomeryvictorygardens.org
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