We offer food, connection and skill building to people interested in growing resilience and supporting food justice
through a community garden project centered in practicing relationship to all life.
through a community garden project centered in practicing relationship to all life.
Our Vision
The Garden Project is a place where we come together in reverent cultivation of growth. We hold food justice as central to resilience, and seek to promote resourced communities through sharing of food and skills. As bodies in collaborative motion, we practice deep listening - to the land, to the plants, to the ancestral knowing we touch the earth with, to our embodied awareness, and to one another in remembered cycles of connection, creation, and harvest. We strive to nurture sovereign and reciprocal systems of nourishment in right relationship to the Land and to the Land’s rightful inhabitants, the Abenaki People. From the individual to the collective, the Garden is a place where we ground to plant and tend the seeds of our resilience.
Structure
The Garden Project is held by a group of people committed to supporting its values and mission. Guided by a team of core vision holders and supported by spheres of dedicated individuals, we offer opportunities for community members to touch ground, connect and receive nourishment through regularly scheduled community work days.
THANK YOU to everyone who lent their hands and hearts to this project in the 2019 growing season.
To see a retrospective of our collective work, check out the 2019 Garden Project page.
THANK YOU to everyone who lent their hands and hearts to this project in the 2019 growing season.
To see a retrospective of our collective work, check out the 2019 Garden Project page.
How to get involved
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If you are called to connect with the Garden Project, we would love to have you join us! We are currently seeking participants at all levels of commitment and connection for the 2020 garden season.
Please fill out this application form: *Directions to the garden and further welcome communications will be provided via email after we receive your application*
Want to check out what we're doing? Come get your hands in the soil and meet us on a Community Work Day. On these days we will practice being in connection with one another, with the plants and with the land, through movement, tending, listening and ritual. Expect to share and learn skills, nourish your body through dynamic movement and contact with supportive earth, and to build and deepen relationships with all manifestations of life. Ritual offerings and work done will be in time with the movement of the seasons and cycles we all live in connection with. To join join us for a Community Work Day, use the form above and indicate your interest in the Outer Scope or Community Work Days. |
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*COVID-19 and The Garden Project*
Community Work Days and Garden Project Membership:
As part of our response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, we are currently in pause and listening in regards to holding Community Work Days for the 2020 Season. If you are interested in participating in Community Work Days, if they should be offered at a later time in the season, please fill out the Membership Application Form to indicate your interest. We are still inviting new members to join us for the 2020 season, and will be following best practices for social distancing and sanitation of tools and equipment to work to assure the health and safety of our members, while providing an opportunity to increase food security for our members.
Additional Information:
We are currently following the guidance of the Vermont Community Garden Network as we shape our practices of gardening in the time of COVID-19. If you would like to learn more about their suggestions for your own gardens and communities, you can find a robust page of resources here.
Community Work Days and Garden Project Membership:
As part of our response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, we are currently in pause and listening in regards to holding Community Work Days for the 2020 Season. If you are interested in participating in Community Work Days, if they should be offered at a later time in the season, please fill out the Membership Application Form to indicate your interest. We are still inviting new members to join us for the 2020 season, and will be following best practices for social distancing and sanitation of tools and equipment to work to assure the health and safety of our members, while providing an opportunity to increase food security for our members.
Additional Information:
We are currently following the guidance of the Vermont Community Garden Network as we shape our practices of gardening in the time of COVID-19. If you would like to learn more about their suggestions for your own gardens and communities, you can find a robust page of resources here.
Community Work Days 2020
Below is an example of our Community Work Day flow from the 2019 Season. As we gain more information about
COVID-19 and our ability to hold group gatherings in safety, we will update this section. If you would like to stay up to
date on Community Work Days, please fill out the Membership Application and fill in "Community Work Days" in your
Scope of interest. Or email Mea with any further questions.
Each Community Work Day will hold space for centering, ritual and collective work, in the theme of the season
and resonance we are gathered in together. The general flow of each Community Work Day will be:
10am: Community centering practice, Opening ritual
10:20am: Working with body intelligence: Alignment practices
10:30am - 3:30pm: Moving intentions through work
3:30pm: Closing ritual
We will break for lunch in the afternoon. If you feel called, please bring food to share, there will be a grill available.
Actual timing of offerings within each work day may vary depending on the natural flow of the day.
COVID-19 and our ability to hold group gatherings in safety, we will update this section. If you would like to stay up to
date on Community Work Days, please fill out the Membership Application and fill in "Community Work Days" in your
Scope of interest. Or email Mea with any further questions.
Each Community Work Day will hold space for centering, ritual and collective work, in the theme of the season
and resonance we are gathered in together. The general flow of each Community Work Day will be:
10am: Community centering practice, Opening ritual
10:20am: Working with body intelligence: Alignment practices
10:30am - 3:30pm: Moving intentions through work
3:30pm: Closing ritual
We will break for lunch in the afternoon. If you feel called, please bring food to share, there will be a grill available.
Actual timing of offerings within each work day may vary depending on the natural flow of the day.
We're looking forward to announcing our 2020 Garden Project Community Work Day offerings soon.
To give you an idea of what is to come, below is a list of our 2019 Community Work Day themes:
May 2019
Planting Intentions, Tending Mystery
June 2019
Dreaming in Daylight
September 2019
Living in Balance
October 2019
The Harvest and the Veil
To give you an idea of what is to come, below is a list of our 2019 Community Work Day themes:
May 2019
Planting Intentions, Tending Mystery
June 2019
Dreaming in Daylight
September 2019
Living in Balance
October 2019
The Harvest and the Veil
Want to help us to keep growing?
We would be so grateful to receive your support in helping us to uphold our Vision and Mission.
We are currently receiving in-kind and financial donations to support our work in the 2020 growing season, which is currently underway. Find out how you can make a contribution to support us by vising our Garden Support page.
We are currently receiving in-kind and financial donations to support our work in the 2020 growing season, which is currently underway. Find out how you can make a contribution to support us by vising our Garden Support page.
Contact Us
The Everything Space: 64 Main Street, 3rd Floor, Montpelier VT 05602, Unceded Territory of the Abenaki Nation
