New England Grassroots Environment Fund

Group Resources

Planning Checklist for Organizing a Community Garden
Fundraising Strategies for Your Garden Project
Sample Community Garden Guidelines
2002 City of Burlington Resolution in Support of Community Gardening
Sample Lease Agreement for a Community Garden
Sample Site Plan for a Community Garden
Sample Signs for Community Gardens
Reducing Produce Theft Guidelines
Keys to Success: How to Develop a School, Youth or Community-Based Garden
From the Garden Recipe Book

Group Details

Friends of Burlington Gardens is a grassroots nonprofit oranization dedicated to the continued growth and success of community-based gardening in the City of Burlington and across Vermont. Through education and outreach, its goal is to increase food gardening opportunities for people of diverse ages, cultural background, and abilities by providing innovative models, helpful information, resources, and technical assistance.

The group’s successes so far include: helping to establish 25 garden sites in Burlington, developing two successful garden-based education programs; coordinating a succesful statwide mini-grant prgram benefitting more than 100 garden projects, and creating a model community garden web site.

The group, located in Burlington (VT), received its latest NEGEF grant to fund the Welcoming Community Gardens Program and recruit, train, and support the efforts of local community garden organizers as they catalyze and cultivate interest in community gardening as a healthy and environmentally friendly way to participate in the local food system. FBG will work with organizers to establish three new community and neighborhood gardens which will serve as models for Burlington’s Climate Action Plan.