Vegetable Garden
Why A Vegetable Garden?
The Habitat For All Garden demonstrates how growing your own food is conservation in action. You decide how the vegetables are grown, harvested and stored. You reduce your reliance on corporate farms, and you reduce the miles some of your food travels to get to your plate.
It may seem like a small act to grow lettuce, peas, and tomatoes, but the ripples from this effort can cause a tidal wave of change.
“I have found, through years of practice, that people garden in order to make something grow; to interact with nature; to share, to find sanctuary, to heal, to honor the earth, to leave a mark.”
-Julie Moir Messervy
About The Vegetable Garden
The food growing area is in two sections, a more traditional raised bed area and a larger, in-ground area at the back.
Total growing area: 572 ft sq.
The raised beds are filled with a 50/50 compost/soil mix
Harvests are used for demonstrations or donated to local food security organizations.
What you can see and do
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see the use of various row covers to protect against pests and frost
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an overhead tomato trellising system
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intensive planting
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taste vegetables and fruit during open days and times
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ask questions!
