An organic garden available for students and community members to use as a practical learning platform for environmentally sound horticulture.
Our current project is an organic garden for use as a practical learning platform for environmentally sound horticulture. The founding of an organic vegetable garden encourages more interest for other students, faculty, staff and the community to learn and put in practice environmentally healthy horticulture. The excess food that is produced by our garden will find its way into the local food stre
Our current project is an organic garden for use as a practical learning platform for environmentally sound horticulture. The founding of an organic vegetable garden encourages more interest for other students, faculty, staff and the community to learn and put in practice environmentally healthy horticulture. The excess food that is produced by our garden will find its way into the local food stre
Fall 21 Garden Gathering
Saturday, October 2nd was the quintessential Virginia fall day with a sky so blue it almost hurt to look upwards. And, for the first time in a few years, the community gardeners gathered in celebra…
Garden visitors
Girl Scout Troop 3042 in Crozet visited the garden and learned about the benefits of a community garden and sustainability. They and their younger siblings and parents walked around smelling, touch…
The garden remains open. If you're nearby, we're practicing social distancing and health department guidelines but we're doing our share in this fight by continuing to grow food for those who need it.
Stay safe, friends. And wherever you are, grow a garden.
Spring Update
Plants grow just fine while we humans struggle with how to deal with the coronavirus. So, while things are a little bumpy right now, I urge you to get your hands in the dirt and get that garden gro…
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UVA’s Madison House
This past Friday nearly two dozen UVA students sat around a table at the back of a school building and talked about their visions of the future for a community garden. UVA has two community gardens…
Loss of a Fellow Community Garden
Reporters Emily Hays and Zack Wajsgras have done a nice piece in Charlottesville Tomorrow about the demise of the Friendship Court community garden. I’ll place the link below and I urge you t…
Job Openings at Monticello
If you’re interested, information about two local horticulture related jobs follows: The Thomas Jefferson Foundation seeks a groundskeeper to maintain our grounds and landscape to a high hort…
Fences
I’d like to take a moment to express gratefulness to Garrad and Victoria, officers with PVCC’s Horticulture and Environmental Club. They came out to the garden this morning and began a …
Upcoming news
New for May… A beautiful new mural by our wonderful volunteers from Madison House. New garden volunteers starting this month! New mulch that’s so broken down and rich it looks like grea…
UVA’s Big Event comes up HUGE
This past Saturday we were grateful for a reprieve from the showers of April because it allowed students from UVA’s Big Event to volunteer in the garden. Seven students showed up and man, the…
Piedmont Virginia Community College
Mark your calendars. Festival of Cultures will return on May 11 with a couple new activities lined up, food, exhibits and a welcome from our May commencement speaker Khizr Khan. This free event is organized by TJACE at PVCC. Read more:http://bit.ly/2uW9P8g #pvcc
Piedmont Virginia Community College
The work-life balance can be a little hard to juggle so we created a quiet place behind our Main Building next to the patio called The Retreat room. This space is designed to help with relaxation, meditation, introspection and spiritual renewal. Check it out M-F 8 a.m.-9 p.m. #pvcc #piedmontvacc
Piedmont Virginia Community College
Looking for a new place to relax, reflect, or meditate on campus? Here at PVCC we created just the place for that. The Retreat Room is now open! Students, faculty & staff can enjoy this safe place M-F 8 a.m.-9 p.m. This room is just behind our Main Building next to the patio.
Plant labels, garden style
Madison House’s Sunday shift came in and made even more rock labels. These beauties are going to grace the grounds of the community garden for many years to come!
Madison House Rocks!
Our Madison House volunteers have returned to the PVCC Community garden for spring semester, coming in one group on Friday 3-5 and another shift on Sunday 2-4. What a lovely group they are, so full…
Lots of action happening in the community garden these days! A few notes: 1. Twenty-five people have signed up to come to the community garden for the United Way Day of Caring from 9-12 on Sept. 26th. All PVCC students are also welcome. 2. UVA’s Phi Sigma Pi came out to the garden and worked 3-5 last Friday along with four member of the PVCC club, then UVA’s Project SERVE came out from 10-12 and were joined by one PVCC student and club member. [ 124 more words ]
https://pvcchorticulture.wordpress.com/2018/09/05/september-updates/
Lots of action happening in the community garden these days! A few notes: 1. Twenty-five people have signed up to come to the community garden for the United Way Day of Caring from 9-12 on Sept. 26…
Getting back to the garden today after vacation, I hoed up some potatoes and red onions. That felt great, and I was able to turn over the soil at the same time, serving both the purpose of weeding and beginning the readying of the bed for fall planting. Got a bunch of cherry tomatoes too, along with some basil and a few squashes that Denise handed over from her plot. [ 82 more words ]
https://pvcchorticulture.wordpress.com/2018/08/05/todays-harvest/
Getting back to the garden today after vacation, I hoed up some potatoes and red onions. That felt great, and I was able to turn over the soil at the same time, serving both the purpose of weeding …
One of our volunteers took some harvest to our friends at The Haven today. Thank you, Allyson!
https://pvcchorticulture.wordpress.com/2018/07/10/todays-dropoff-at-the-haven/
One of our volunteers took some harvest to our friends at The Haven today. Thank you, Allyson!
It’s June and here comes Triple C Camp’s Teen Scene!
Last week we were visited by 36 campers aged 12-14 who, as part of their summer experience, visit schools and non-profit locations and provide help with projects. At the community garden these youn…
Just back from visiting the community garden on this incredibly beautiful Sunday. We're having a little trouble getting the widget to move posts over from the Wordpress site, so I'm posting this one directly. Haven't been to the garden in a while? Come on by, it's looking great! - D.
Summer 2018
We have had an influx of new volunteers to the garden recently and they’re bringing great energy and enthusiasm to the team. Not that our existing volunteers aren’t passionate, it’…
PVCC’s Eco Fair April 11th and two job openings
Two job openings have come to our recent attention. Sharondale Farm, a mushroom farm in Cismont (Keswick) is l looking for more help. The Inn at Little Washington, in Washington, VA is in search of…
Film event – “Hometown Habitat” February 11th
Wildlife habitat isn’t just wide open spaces and dense green forests. Habitat can be created almost anywhere. This free educational event features a screening of Hometown Habitat: Stories of Bringi…
Kohlrabi
Henry, This one’s for you! Hope NY is treating you well and you find yourself some soil to grow in. Working in the garden this fine Saturday morning, I watched a blue heron take off and soar. Maybe it was the early heat, but it felt metaphorical.
One Friday, two interns
The weather is getting hotter, but our two interns are still wearing smiles. Here are Izaiah and Zavion on their second Friday, prepping the next bed for fall crop planting.
Summer gardening interns
Two new interns through the Community Attention Youth Internship Program (CAYIP) are joining us for six weeks in the garden this summer. They are getting an education about what it takes to keep a garden growing in the warm weather – lots of watering! Plus weeding, harvesting, and general upkeep. La
Manure
Recently we tested a few of our eight raised beds and found that they’re generally in good shape but could use a few amendments. A local farmer was awesome enough to drop us off a load of manure to help improve soil fertility. I don’t know if he’d wish to be named and run the […]
UVA’s The Big Event
On Saturday, April 8th. students participating in UVA’s Big Event came to the garden. We had a lot of fun working in the native plant beds and prepping some of the vegetable beds for planting. April is Charlottesville’s most beautiful month and we are looking good with spring planting!
Revving up for Spring
We’re still weeks away from the last frost date for this region, but things are heating up in the garden. Madison House has begun visiting, the beds are tilled up the asparagus are starting to rise (sounds like fly fishing), and the flats in the hoop house have inhabitants that are getting hopeful.
A 2016 Thank You
Welcome to 2017! While it may be cold outside and the possibility of snow is looming, I’d like to take just a moment to look back at the 2016 year and thank those who volunteered in the community garden. Last year we added the local Salvation Army to those receiving food from us. The other […]
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