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Tom's Garden Fall 2011 Grant Season: submit your application and get your garden spruced up now!

Time for our Fall 2011 Community Garden Grants. Submit your application, found here: we love funding community, communal and school gardens in Charlottesville and Albemarle. Applications are due Oct ober 1, 2011. Questions? Feel free to email Amy.

Posted by Toms Garden

Catching up on Spring 2011 Grants

It is a little late, but I wanted to post a quick update to announce that our Spring 2011 Community Gardening Grants went to:

The Haven (PATCH)

Greer Elementary

Buford Backyard Garden

Monticello High School - Ecology Garden

Congratulations all! Happy Growing.

Posted by Amy Bender Webb

Charlottesville Open Garden Project

via facebook.com

The Charlottesville Open Garden Project's mission is to connect local gardeners, in order to share resources, experience, knowledge, and passion. We conduct monthly tours of productive gardens in neighborhoods around Charlottesville. On our email list-serv, we ask questions of each other, offer shared resources, relate tales of garden trials and successes, and more.

Posted by Amy Bender Webb

Community Gardening and Urban Farming in Richmond; about Tricycle Gardens phenomenal program!!

Three architects founded Tricycle Gardens (501(c)3) in 2002 while living in Church Hill–a neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia that juxtaposes meticulously renovated historic homes with high-density public housing; stunning vistas of the James River with abandoned, overgrown lots. The founders believed community gardens and the simple act of growing food were the fastest ways to improve the health of their community–both for the residents and the environment. What started with the city’s first community garden on a vacant lot owned by The Better Housing Coalition, has grown into four Community Gardens, three Learning Gardens, a green house, and now an urban farm.

via tricyclegardens.org

Posted by Amy Bender Webb