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Community Garden Startup
Assistance! The Five Points Community Farm Market has received a $4,500 Grant to establish an Educational/Instructional
Community Garden at Norview United Methodist Church. This Farm Market outreach project will help establish the grassroots
processes, procedures and support system to help develop gardens throughout Norfolk. If your neighborhood is interested
in starting a Community Garden, , contact the Market at farmmarket@verizon.net for information.
Jump into
spring with a terrific series of free gardening classes being offered by the
VB Public Library at the Pungo-Blackwater library branch on Princess Anne Road (just south of Pungo). From edible landscaping
and fabulous container gardening ideas to discovering the spirit of your own landscape, these are fun talks full of gardening
wisdom and advice. For a complete class, list go to the Garden Events webpage. Sign up early, space is limited!
Beekeeping Class for Beginners - The Beekeepers Guild of Southeast Virginia
and the Wesleyan Beekeepers Association present a three day Short Course for Beginning Beekeepers. The course will be
held on three consecutive Saturday mornings, February 20, 27, and March 06, 2010 from 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM at Virginia Wesleyan
College in Norfolk, Virginia. The course consists of lectures and hands-on demonstrations. Details are online at the Beekeepers Guild website.
The Useful Gardens Blog
And
Gardening Discussion Group
Follow a dedicated food gardener's joys and woes and share your own comments
at the Useful Gardens Blog, www.usefulgardens.blogspot.com
Have
a guestion? Want to share an tip or solution? The Useful Gardens Gardeners' Group at http://groups.google.com/group/usefulgardens is our forum for gardening ideas. Meet other
area gardeners and brainstorm gardening solutions and ideas for creating beautiful and useful gardens. 
Buy Fresh
Buy Local Hampton Roads will be at the Home & Garden Show! This is prime time for buying winter vegetables and holiday feasting supplies at our local farm stands and
farmers' markets, seafood is never better than this season and locally pastured beef, pork and poultry products are available
year round. You can find the shopping info you need in the BFBLHR Food Guides! For more info, visit the BFBLHR
booth at the Home & Garden Show Feb. 5 - 7 at the Virginia Beach Pavilion.
There is also useful info
right here on the Local Growers and Stands or Area Farmers Markets webpages. Buying local means not only fresher food for you but it also means jobs, income and
agricultural security for our community.
Winter is the
time to rest and refresh yourself and your garden beds. Check the The Garden Notebook page for winter ideas to keep your vegetable production going through
the "off" season.
Gardening Classes continue
around the area. You won't want to miss the opportunity to learn new gardening tricks or information on wonderful
new plants for your landscape so keep in touch with the Upcoming Garden Events page. If you know of an event we've missed, send it on to us!
This little website was created to help gardeners in the Hampton Roads,
Virginia area share gardening tips, tricks and folklore, especially to help new gardeners get off to a good start.
There's a wonderful surge of interest in gardening as thoughtful folks design lives that are more environmentally
and fiscally responsible and creative. We thought about calling this "recession gardening" - but, as any gardener
knows, once you learn the delights of growing your own fruits and veggies, it won't matter whether you can afford high-priced
items - no "store-bought" varieties will taste as good.
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