Join us in creating a center for teaching and practicing small-scale, organic agriculture and sustainable living

Garden Workday

Date: 05/22/2010 (Saturday)
Time: 9:00 AM
Location: Fitchburg Fields Garden, 5335 Lacy Road, Fitchburg. Please park on Ballyduff
Cost: FREE

9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Come to help us with the garden and learn step by step how to start your own. Over several successive weekend work days, we will prep the garden beds in the original garden space, flag and lay out pathways in the new garden space and then create the planting beds. Once ready for planting, we'll put in the spring seeds and cool weather plants, followed by the seeds and plants that go in as the days and soil temps warm up. We also need to install our bentwood trellises, make plant label markers and much more.

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Meeting new challenges, transforming lives

Fitchburg Fields is a grassroots, non-profit and for-impact organization in Fitchburg, WI, just south of the capital city of Madison. We have a small garden and a big vision, and we invite you to volunteer, learn, and contribute to our efforts!

What we do

Grow the next generation of organic farmers and gardeners.
Create new jobs in the local food sector.
Create community bonds.

Why we do it

Recession is causing unemployment and hunger.
Peaking oil supplies necessitate a low-fuel food system.
Global climate change necessitates a low-carbon food system.

How we do it

Teach in our garden.
Teach in community kitchens and homes.
Support the community with food and information.

"A Teaching and Sharing Garden"

Our Garden, 4000 sq. ft. of fertility at the SE corner of Lacy Rd. and Fahey Glen in Fitchburg, WI, is a small plot of borrowed land, but we are enthusiastically using it to teach and learn how to create a local food system in the Madison area. (Click here for map.) We hope to "scale up" our experiences when we purchase a 250-acre parcel just 2 miles away – but that will take a lot of help! (Read about our vision, and see the land that could become a center for sustainable agriculture and living by clicking here.)