Q: What is a Community Garden
A: A communal garden is often in an urban setting for shared use by a number of local residents. In this case The VGF brings together diverse members of the Northside community around a common commitment to community building, urban agriculture, and access to healthy food and affordable, local transportation.
Q: How much is it to lease a garden plot?
The VGF has (24) 12 x 12 garden beds to lease. The cost has remained stable at $20 for the calendar year.
Q: How do I get a garden plot?
Contact us in the Winter or very early Spring by emailing us through this website or sending a Facebook message providing us with your name, telephone number and email. Let us know that you would like to be on the garden plot waiting list. The previous year’s gardeners get first choice. You can also leave your information with a volunteer coordinator when you come to The Gardens at the Village Green or MoBo during Open Bike Shop hours.
Q: Do you sell compost?
We do not sell compost. Our compost pile is available for use in the VGF community gardens.
Q: The Gardens at the Village Green has a Food Forest. What is a Food Forest?
Forest gardening is a low – maintenance sustainable plant – based food production and agroforestry system based on woodland ecosystems, incorporating fruit and nut trees, shrubs, herbs, vines and perennial vegetables useful to humans. companion planting is intermixed to grow in a succession of layers, to build a woodland habitat.
Q: Do you grow your own plants?
The plants sold in our annual plant sale are grown in our very own greenhouse using Heirloom seeds!