{"id":531,"date":"2023-07-07T06:21:15","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T10:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/huertas\/?p=531"},"modified":"2023-07-07T06:34:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T10:34:29","slug":"huertas-vermont-garden-network-huertas-y-la-red-de-jardines-de-vermont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/huertas\/2023\/07\/07\/huertas-vermont-garden-network-huertas-y-la-red-de-jardines-de-vermont\/","title":{"rendered":"Huertas & Vermont Garden Network \/ Huertas y la Red de jardines de Vermont!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Summer 2023 Collaboration: Huertas & Vermont Garden Network! <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This summer Huertas has been collaborating with Carolina Lukac from Vermont Garden Network<\/a> (VGN)! It has been great getting to know Carolina and learning about Vermont Garden Network and its goals and work across the state. Over the past few months, Carolina and Vermont Garden Network have been providing ProGro fertilizer for participating gardens, facilitating soil samples, and offering technical assistance on topics such as pest and disease management, seed saving, medicinal plants, and much more! Just recently, as we drove through the North East Kingdom of Vermont to visit several Huertas participants, I had the opportunity to chat with Carolina and learn more about Vermont Garden Network and the origins of the Huertas\/VGN collaboration.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vermont Garden Network is a non-profit organization based in Burlington that has been around for twenty years. The organization provides support with gardening, which can take many forms, including coordinating and offering education and resources. As Carolina herself notes, \u201c…the mission of the organization is to support and connect gardeners around the state, and that could be backyard gardeners, it could be a school garden, it could be a library or a senior residence or anywhere where people are growing food together and our support looks like garden education programming. We [also] have several grant programs that we\u2019ve helped fund, community gardening initiatives. We have a mobile van that travels around the state sharing nutrition education; so, many ways of supporting gardeners to feel confident in growing their own food and being able to access their own food.\u201d While Vermont Garden Network’s main base is in Burlington, they extend across the state, helping to cultivate support, engagement, and interest in gardening. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This season\u2019s collaboration between Huertas and Vermont Garden Network has been some time in the making; for years, Vermont Garden Network provided seeds to Huertas. Several years ago, Carolina, Teresa, and Naomi began conversing more seriously about how to work together in a more organized fashion. Earlier this year, a grant opportunity arose from NOFA (Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont), specifically the NOFA Famer Resilience Grant<\/a>. Huertas and VGN applied jointly and began to plan for the summer ahead! Vermont Garden Network brings a wealth of knowledge and experience from past and current partnerships to the collaboration with Huertas, such as their work with affordable housing sites and New Farms for New Americans<\/a>. As Carolina explains, the work with Huertas is similar in some ways to the work she\u2019s \u201c…been doing with New Farms for New Americans\u2026working with people who have specific\u2026culturally meaningful food that they are looking to grow in Vermont and so sourcing those seeds or those varieties and figuring out how to grow them in Vermont, I feel like is a theme that we\u2019ve been working on with NFNA for a couple of years and so in that sense, it\u2019s similar to Huertas.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When asked what she is looking forward to for the rest of this summer, Carolina responded: \u201cI think it\u2019s always fun for me to work with people who are tending to gardens, have tended to gardens before, and then they learn something new that they didn\u2019t realize they could grow in Vermont or that it was that easy to grow or that they could do with a plant, like that kind of moment of like, oh, I can also do that, or I can also grow that seed.\u201d We talked about the hope that gardens and the act of gardening itself can provide. Especially in Vermont, where there are such long winters, gardens have the power to be sources of inspiration and hope for the warmer months ahead; we are looking forward to working with VGN and learning more about overwintering, among other topics. For the rest of the summer and beyond, we have a variety of potential projects planned, from planting garlic with Huertas participants to making natural remedies, so stay tuned to hear about these and more to come! Thank you so much, Carolina and Vermont Garden Network, for collaborating with Huertas this summer! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a1Colaboraci\u00f3n del verano de 2023: Huertas y la Red de jardines de Vermont! <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Este verano, Huertas ha estado colaborando con Carolina Lukac de la Red de jardines de Vermont (VGN<\/a>, por sus siglas en ingles)! Ha sido un placer conocer a Carolina y aprender m\u00e1s sobre VGN y el trabajo importante que hace la organizaci\u00f3n. Hasta ahora, Carolina y VGN han estado proporcionando fertilizante para las huertas de participantes, facilitando ex\u00e1menes de la tierra, ofreciendo asistencia t\u00e9cnica sobre una variedad de temas, como plantas medicinales, el ahorro de semillas, manejo de plagas y mucho m\u00e1s! Recientemente, mientras manejamos a trav\u00e9s del norte de Vermont para visitar a algun@s participantes de Huertas, yo habl\u00e9 con Carolina y aprend\u00ed m\u00e1s sobre VGN y los or\u00edgenes de la colaboraci\u00f3n entre VGN y Huertas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

VGN es una organizaci\u00f3n sin fines de lucro basada en Burlington que fue fundada hace veinte a\u00f1os. La organizaci\u00f3n ofrece apoyo de jardiner\u00eda a individu@s y comunidades alrededor de Vermont. Este apoyo puede venir en una variedad de formas, desde coordinando y ofreciendo educaci\u00f3n, recursos y m\u00e1s. Como dijo Carolina, \u201c…la misi\u00f3n de la organizaci\u00f3n es apoyar y conectar con individuales con huertas alrededor del estado, y podr\u00edan ser jardiner@s de patio trasero, podr\u00eda ser un jard\u00edn escolar, podr\u00eda ser una biblioteca o una residencia para personas mayores o cualquier lugar donde l@s personas cultiven alimentos juntas; y nuestro apoyo parece como un programa de educaci\u00f3n sobre . [Tambien] tenemos varios programas que hemos logrado ayudar a financiar, iniciativas de jardiner\u00eda comunitaria, tenemos una camioneta m\u00f3vil que viaja por todo el estado compartiendo educaci\u00f3n nutricional; entonces, muchas maneras de ayudar a l@s jardiner@s a sentirse seguros al cultivar sus propi@s alimentos y poder acceder a sus propi@s alimentos.\u201d Mientras que VGN est\u00e1 basada en Burlington, extiende a trav\u00e9s del estado, ayudando cultivar inter\u00e9s en las huertas y apoyando a jardiner@s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

La colaboraci\u00f3n entre Huertas y VGN lleva algunos a\u00f1os en desarrollo. Por varios a\u00f1os, VGN prove\u00eda semillas a Huertas. Hace unos a\u00f1os, Carolina, Teresa y Naomi comenzaron a conversar m\u00e1s sobre como trabajar juntas en una manera m\u00e1s organizada. Despu\u00e9s de unos a\u00f1os de pensar, surgi\u00f3 una beca de la Asociaci\u00f3n de Agriculutra Org\u00e1nica del Noreste de Vermont (NOFA, por sus siglas en ingles), espec\u00edficamente la beca de Resiliencia para agricultores (o el Farmer Resilient Grant<\/a>, en ingles). Huertas y VGN aplicaron juntos y empezaron a planificar para el verano! VGN lleva una variedad de conocimiento y experiencia de colaboraciones previas a su trabajo con Huertas este verano, como su trabajo con sitios de alojamiento econ\u00f3micos y con \u201cJardines nuevos para american@s nuevos\u201d (NFNA<\/a>, por sus siglas en ingles). Como explica Carolina, su trabajo con Huertas es similar en algunas maneras al trabajo que ha \u201c…estado haciendo con NFNA trabajando con personas que tienen comida espec\u00edfica y significativo culturalmente que desean sembrar en Vermont, y entonces encontrando estas semillas o variedades y averiguando como sembrarlas en Vermont es also que hemos estado haciendo con NFNA por unos a\u00f1os y en este sentido, es similar a Huertas.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cuando le pregunt\u00e9 lo que m\u00e1s le emociona para el verano que viene, Carolina respondi\u00f3 que \u201cPara mi siempre es divertido trabajar con personas que est\u00e1n cuidando a huertas, que han trabajado en huertas en el pasado, y verl@s aprender algo nuevo, sobre algo que no sab\u00edan que pod\u00edan sembrar en Vermont o que, ese momento de, oh, tambi\u00e9n puedo hacer esto o puedo plantar esta semilla.\u201d Hablamos sobre la esperanza que pueden dar las huertas y el proceso de sembrar. Especialmente en Vermont, con los inviernos tan largos, las huertas tienen el poder de ser fuentes de inspiraci\u00f3n y esperanza para los meses m\u00e1s calientes que vienen; estamos emocionados para la oportunidad de trabajar con VGN y aprender m\u00e1s como hacer que las plantas sobreviven el invierno y otros temas. Para el resto del verano, tenemos algunos proyectos posibles planeados, desde plantar ajo con l@s participantes de Huertas a hacer remedios naturales, as\u00ed que quedan alertas para escuchar sobre estos y otros proyectos. \u00a1Much\u00edsimas gracias a Carolina y a VGN por colaborar con Huertas y por su apoyo! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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