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UPCOMING EVENTS!

Food Gardening Classes Galore!

Classes at the Whole Foods Market in Rockville/White Flint:

* Introduction to Food Gardening for Kids (ages 6 - 11) - Tuesday, April 10, 4 - 4:45pm

All classes are FREE. The Rockville Whole Foods is at 11355 Woodglen Drive, Rockville, MD 20852. (Free parking under the store.)

RSVP is requested, please email them at rockvillecommunity@wholefoods.com, and include the name of the class in the subject line. For additional information or questions, call 301-984-4880.

Classes at the Whole Foods Market in Silver Spring:

* Introduction to Organic Food Gardening - Wednesday, April 11, 6:30pm - 8pm

* Half Pints Kids Club: Introduction to Food Gardening - Thursday, April 19, 4pm - 4:45pm

* Container Food Gardening 101 - Wednesday, April 25, 6:30pm -8pm

All classes are FREE. The Silver Spring Whole Foods is at 833 Wayne Ave

Silver Spring, MD 20910 USA. Folks may register at Customer Service or by calling 301-608-9373. Please mention the name and date of course when registering

Classes at Montgomery County Community College, Germantown Campus:

* Techniques for Extending the Growing Season - Saturday, April 7, 9:30am - 12Noon

Class fee is $65, click here and type course title in Keyword Search to register.

Classes at Brookside Gardens in Wheaton:

* Vegetable Gardening Basics: Plants, Mulches and Watering - Wednesday, April 4, 6:30 - 8pm

* Forest Gardens: Productive Ecosystems - Thursday, April 12, 6:30 - 8pm

* Vegetable Gardening Basics: Harvest and Succession - Wednesday, April 25, 6:30 - 8pm

The vegetable gardening classes are $15, while the Forest Garden class (sounds interesting!) is free. All are held at Brookside Garden 1800 Glenallan Ave.

Wheaton, MD 20902; registration is required. Click here for more information and to register, or call 301-962-1400

MVG Food Book Club -- Monday, April 30 at 6:30pm (the location is TBD, but will be in the Silver Spring area). And the book we will be discussing is Breaking Through Concrete: Building an Urban Farm Revival, which chronicles a biodiesel-fueled, internet-enabled bus trip across America by a team of young men looking to document our nation's growing urban farm movement. You can click here for more about info on this fascinating and timely book, and we welcome folks to pick up a copy, read it, and join us on April 30! Just RSVP to Stacy at wormcastings[at]comcast.net for more info.

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

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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]



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
Organic Consumers Association

 

Montgomery County Food Council Meets Holds First Meeting!

The newest food council in the United States had its first meeting on February 15 - right here in Montgomery County - in a jam-packed room of more than 50 attendees.

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.

Working groups are now being formed, with a next full meeting scheduled for April 18. 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.


“Know Your Local Farmer”
Twin Springs Fruit Farm

Montgomery Victory Gardens Wins Community Award
Montgomery Victory Gardens Wins Community Hero Award



Vegetable Gardens
Come to Montgomery County Public Schools!

We are delighted that after a year-plus long campaign, led by MVG, the Montgomery County Master Gardeners, Audubon Naturalist Society and more than 30 community organizations, the Montgomery County Public School System changed it's policy to allow vegetable gardens 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.

The next step is to spread the word among teachers and administrators, and to assist schools in starting
these gardens - the best hands-on, real life,
multi-issue learning experiences possible!

Contact us at info@montgomeryvictorygardens.org
to find out how you can help.!

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


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.


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!

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

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