Hello Gardeners! We are excited to be back! Here is the recording for April 2021’s webinar on food and COVID safety in the garden with Dr. Lester Schonberger.
We look forward to a great webinar series this year! Next month will be Jaelyn Munson of Virginia Cooperative Extension talking about container gardening with families during COVID.
Thanks!
Hello, gardeners! Thank you so much for joining us for our webinars in 2020. Here is the link to the last one for this year on Increasing Access to Produce with a Garden, Market and Pantry Collaboration by Rachel Burks.
Thanks to all of our great presenters this year! I hope it was a fruitful one for everyone in our network. Please stay in touch, and we will be back in April 2021! Have a great holiday season.
Hello Gardeners!
Here is the recording of September’s awesome panel on Using and Reviving School/Youth Gardens during the pandemic. Panel speakers included LaVeta Nutter, VDOE Specialist for Agricultural Education, Jordan Johnson, City Schoolyard Garden Program Director, and Aisha Salazar and Kirsten Conrad, Virginia Cooperative Extension Agents
See you in October!
Hello Gardeners! Here is the link to the recording of this month’s conversation with Dr. James Wilson, Apiculturist for Virginia Cooperative Extension talking about bees and pollinators for community gardens. I certainly learned a lot!
Hope to see you next month, July 28th at 9:00AM EST for our conversation with Project GROWS, a educational non-profit with an amazing teaching garden and lots of impactful food access work. See you then!
Hello gardeners!
I hope all this rain hasn’t messed up too many of your plans. This month we had presenters representing 2 great programs working to increase food security during COVID-19 with container gardening and mail gardening programs.
Presenters:
Kristin McCartney, West Virginia SNAP-Ed
Jennifer Palmer, Live Healthy Rockbridge and Rebecca Wilder, FCS SNAP-Ed Agent
Click here for recording of presentations
Save the date for June 23rd at 9 AM EST, when we will have James Wilson from Virginia Cooperative Extension come talk about bees in community gardens.
Hello Gardeners!
We had a great turn out for our April 2020 webinar, a big thank you to our presenters Kathleen Reed and Mike Andruczyk.
Click here for the link to the recording
I also posted the slides here in the google drive.
And finally, here is the link to the COVID-19 resources we discussed.
Thanks again! It was great to see all of you. See you at our next webinar on May 26, 9:00AM EST to discuss “Garden to Go” container garden programs. Join the list serve to stay in touch!
Meredith
Hello gardeners! Welcome back. We are very happy to get back to work providing you with resources and networking opportunities. Gardening is more important than ever and we are here to provide you with what you need to help feed our communities.
As a reminder our monthly webinars are the fourth Tuesday of every month, April through November, at 9:00AM. They are recorded and will be posted here.
Our first webinar will be April 28th at 9:00AM. Presenters include Kathleen Reed, Extension State Master Gardener Coordinator who will be speaking on COVID-19 safety protocols, and Michael Andruczyk, Extension Agent who will be sharing a resource guide he created for maintaining garden records.
Join the webinar via Zoom:
https://virginiatech.zoom.us/
j/97559535657
Don’t forget our resource library, where we have a new COVID-19 resource folder. Finally, I also want to point you to VCE’s exciting new vegetable gardening page, which pulls together all of their expertise in one place!
See you soon!
https://www.wdbj7.com/content/news/Building-a-community-through-gardening–509406521.html
Article from WDBJ7 (Roanoke-CBS) on the Roanoke Community Garden Association
Anna Copplestone, director of the ROA Community Garden Association, joined us in May for our community conversation disussing the 4 community gardens across the city and the connection with Carilion Health.
Click here to access the May Community Conversation (webinar).
We have many wonderful production related resources at Virginia Cooperative Extension.
Visit http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/ to access the Publications & Educational Resources Page.
See the link below to find some common garden related publications.
VCE Publication Links_Half Sheets
Join us as we sprout the Virginia Community Garden Network!
We are offering Webinars to share online conversations & learning opportunities held on the 4th Tuesday of each month at 9am.
Our schedule for the next few months:
The connection info will be posted via the listserv. Looking to Join?
JOIN US by going to https://groups.google.com/d/forum/va-community-garden-network
If you can’t join us LIVE, check out the Webinars tab above to connect to our archived recordings.
