About Us
Our Purpose
Our purpose is twofold: First, to grow food for the Marshfield community, both for those experiencing food insecurity and for the community at-large with a “help yourself” garden. Second, we also aim to build community.
By growing food at our town center, we serve our common needs for healthy food and human connection.
Marshfield is a small town with wide socioeconomic diversity. In the midst of a divisive political climate and a global pandemic, the Marshfield Community Garden is one way to bring us together and remind us of our shared humanity.
To that end, our group works in partnership with the Marshfield Conservation Commission to plant perennial food crops on the village commons (fruit and nut trees, berries, rhubarb & asparagus). Jointly, we have developed a 5-year plan for these plantings. We also partner with the Jaquith Library to sponsor educational workshops on planting & growing, and with the Onion River Foodshelf for input into what crops to grow, and to invite their patrons to visit, harvest, and/or participate in the community garden.
"The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies."
— Gertrude Jekyll
Our Volunteers
Many thanks go to the following people for their time and creativity:
Angie Barger
Betsy Brigham
Bobbi Buchanan
Steve Fiske
Sarah Galbraith
Susan Green (Jaquith Library)
Corinne Gretch
Ellen Keene
Tracey McNaughton
Hope Metcalf
Anne Miller
Alex Nicholetti
Melissa Seifert
Robin Shunk
Faeterri Silver
Many Thanks to These Supporters
This community garden space would not be possible without the generous contributions of materials from these supporters:
Bob and Lee Light, Hollister Hill Farm, Marshfield, VT
Well rotted manure
https://www.hollisterhillfarm.com/
Divina Haverick, Marshfield, VT
Tomato and pepper plants
Glen Seifert
Built stand for water tank
Marshfield Fire Department
Filling the water tank
We are grateful to our community for all of your time, creativity, materials and money donations.
"The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul."
— Alfred Austin
