Consuming, Growing, and Living Closer To Home
Welcome to Dharma Gardens
a seed of a site
Upper Valley Home Grower's Group |
It seems to me that any self-respecting localvore site should start close to home. This nascent group of local veggie growers is intended to be a support forum to swap advice relating to growing and eating in the Upper Valley of Vermont and New Hampshire. It is only in the planning stage, and does not even have a name yet (see the forum below to help select one), but I invite you to join me. There is a brand new forum in which we can discuss local issues and blogs will follow shortly. Our home page is in its earliest stages, but I will grow it as time permits. |
Dharma Gardens |
BlogOkay, so I am a late bloomer, but I have finally started a blog (this old dog is educable). ForumsThese forums are intended as a place for the greater community of gardeners, localvores, and home food producers to share questions, knowledge and ideas. There are only three to start, but I welcome suggestions for additional ones as interest warrants. |
GuidesThis section will include various lessons I have learned (and continue to learn). I have started with the one that awakened the passion to grow in me. Growing Garlic - Garlic is my very favorite crop (I grow many hundred bulbs each year, spanning over two dozen varieties. Seed Sources - These are a few of my favorite online seed sources. I have purchased from each of them. |
My Garden
My own garden (zone 5a) consists of roughly 1,800 square feet of mostly-raised beds. Built on top of an old dairy, and then horse, pasture, the "soil" was very rocky and compacted. There was nothing to be done for it other than dig down and raise my beds as best as my time and budget allows. It is still a very young garden, and offers many new lessons each and every day I spend in it. |
DownloadsDownload free envelopes to clip and fold to securely store your seeds. |
To my fellow gardeners who live and grow elsewhere, I welcome you with equal enthusiasm! It is no contradiction in terms to say that more global the localvore movement, the better. It is vital that all our communities share our problems and solutions. Together we can make a vital difference in all our lives.
John W. Scott - Cornish, NH (zone 5a) |
P. O. Box 333, Windsor, VT 05089 |