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]
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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
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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 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.)
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