Burlington Community Garden Burlington, Vermont Apply for a plot
Plot map · Burlington, Vermont

Find your row.
Grow with neighbors.

Pick the bed that looks like yours, put your stake in the ground, and grow beside the people who garden here.

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One application. One bed. A whole row of neighbors.

Open plots Shared rows the north path

Every pin on this map is a way in.

Open plots Planted beds Shared rows Paths Stakes go up when a bed is taken.
Stake 01 · Plot rentals

There’s a patch with your name on it.

A plot is yours to tend. Choose your bed, work it your way, and share the paths with the gardeners on either side of you. Bring your own ideas about tomatoes. Bring nothing else.

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Raised garden beds with wooden stakes in early spring light
Beds staked and ready in spring

  1. Send in the application

    Tell us how you like to grow and what you hope to put in the ground.

  2. Walk the garden

    Come out, look along the rows, and stand in the bed that suits you.

  3. Put your stake in

    Your name goes on the stake at the head of your bed, so neighbors know who’s growing what.

  4. Grow with neighbors

    Compare notes across the path, swap seedlings, and share what comes up.

Stake 02 · Workshops & seed swap

Come learn it here, then come grow it here.

Workshops and the seed swap are where the garden’s know-how moves around — from one pair of hands to the next, usually over a table of envelopes and a tray of seedlings.

Gardening workshops

Hands-on sessions in the garden, taught by the neighbors who grow here. Bring your questions and leave with dirt under your nails.

Seed swap

Bring what you saved, take what you need. Envelopes, labels and a good deal of advice change hands.

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Gardeners around a table of seed packets and seedlings at a workshop
A workshop table mid-morning
Hands sorting seeds into envelopes and jars at a seed swap
The seed swap table
Volunteers moving a wheelbarrow along a garden path on a workday

A volunteer workday between the beds

Stake 03 · Volunteer workdays

The garden runs on workdays.

  • Spring bed prep and path clearing
  • Compost turning and wheelbarrow runs
  • Watering and weeding the shared rows
  • Mending, hauling and building

Come for an hour or stay the morning. There is always a job that fits the hands you have, and always someone working alongside you who knows where things live.

Bring a friend, or come on your own and leave knowing several more people than you did.

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Gloves if you have them. Company either way.

Young gardeners planting seedlings in a raised bed
Young gardeners at work
Stake 04 · Youth programs

Kids grow here too.

Youth programs put trowels in small hands — planting, watering, tasting things straight off the stem, and getting thoroughly muddy in the process. Young gardeners work the same beds as everyone else, which is rather the point.

  • Hands-on and outdoors. Gardening clothes are the right clothes.
  • Ask about ages and timing. Send the form below and tell us about your young gardener.
Stake 05 · Apply or volunteer

Put your name on a stake.

Tell us which way you want in — a plot of your own, a workday, a workshop, the seed swap, or a place for a young gardener. One form reaches the whole garden.

Burlington, Vermont

Come walk the paths before you decide. Send the form and we’ll write back to set up a time at the beds.

We’ll write back from the garden.