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Come visit the Central Library for a first-hand look at what it takes to create an urban vegetable garden.
Inspired by the Arlington Reads 2010 theme of food sustainability, the Library is partnering with a variety of community organizations and agencies to put in a vegetable garden at its back entrance to benefit Arlington Food Assistance Center (AFAC). Check out AFAC's Plot Against Hunger site to find more information about their program.
In addition to AFAC, our garden partners include:
Both AFAC and the Library will post photos of the garden's progress through spring, summer and fall, so check back regularly!
- Who Waters The Vegetable Garden?
Julie Damore does! Julie is a volunteer at Central Library who helps tend our Arlington Food Assistance Center vegetable garden. In this photo, taken by the staff at AFAC for their newsletter, she's holding a bouquet of broccoli and cucumbers. These...
- Don Weber, Library Volunteer Extraordinaire
Meet Don Weber, research entomologist with the USDA Agricultural Research Service, longtime Arlington resident and über volunteer at the Central Library. Don shows Pink Lady Beetles to Mrs. Vilsak and Library Director Diane KreshLast year, Don spearheaded...
- "tuesdays In The Garden" Lecture Series
Corn so high, it touches the sky... Join local gardening and horticulture experts at the new Central Library Community Garden for our first Garden Lecture series, "Tuesdays in the Garden." Lectures will take place on Tuesday evenings at 7:00 p.m., from...
- Beautiful Growth In The Vegetable Garden
After a lot of hard work and the recent rain, our new vegetable garden is sprouting like crazy! Vegetable and Herb Panorama!Thanks to Arlington Food Assistance Center, the Girl Scouts of Troop 1431, Potomac Overlook Regional Park, the USDA's People's...
- Vegetable Garden Update
What's going on in the Central Library Vegetable Garden? As author Michael Shermer wrote, "Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable," and we have to add, so is gardening! We're still working to clear the liriope from our garden bed...
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Vegetable Garden at the Library
Come visit the Central Library for a first-hand look at what it takes to create an urban vegetable garden.
Inspired by the Arlington Reads 2010 theme of food sustainability, the Library is partnering with a variety of community organizations and agencies to put in a vegetable garden at its back entrance to benefit Arlington Food Assistance Center (AFAC). Check out AFAC's Plot Against Hunger site to find more information about their program.
In addition to AFAC, our garden partners include:
- Girl Scout Troop 1431
- Potomac Overlook Regional Park of the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority
- Potomac Vegetable Farms
- USDA People's Garden Initiative
Both AFAC and the Library will post photos of the garden's progress through spring, summer and fall, so check back regularly!
- Who Waters The Vegetable Garden?
Julie Damore does! Julie is a volunteer at Central Library who helps tend our Arlington Food Assistance Center vegetable garden. In this photo, taken by the staff at AFAC for their newsletter, she's holding a bouquet of broccoli and cucumbers. These...
- Don Weber, Library Volunteer Extraordinaire
Meet Don Weber, research entomologist with the USDA Agricultural Research Service, longtime Arlington resident and über volunteer at the Central Library. Don shows Pink Lady Beetles to Mrs. Vilsak and Library Director Diane KreshLast year, Don spearheaded...
- "tuesdays In The Garden" Lecture Series
Corn so high, it touches the sky... Join local gardening and horticulture experts at the new Central Library Community Garden for our first Garden Lecture series, "Tuesdays in the Garden." Lectures will take place on Tuesday evenings at 7:00 p.m., from...
- Beautiful Growth In The Vegetable Garden
After a lot of hard work and the recent rain, our new vegetable garden is sprouting like crazy! Vegetable and Herb Panorama!Thanks to Arlington Food Assistance Center, the Girl Scouts of Troop 1431, Potomac Overlook Regional Park, the USDA's People's...
- Vegetable Garden Update
What's going on in the Central Library Vegetable Garden? As author Michael Shermer wrote, "Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable," and we have to add, so is gardening! We're still working to clear the liriope from our garden bed...