Home and Community Food Gardening
Not many Granite Staters have planted food gardens in recent years, but many more of us could.
We created this site to help New Hampshire residents start and care for productive food gardens, preserve some of the bounty, and keep up with the latest gardening research and ideas. Please click on the tabs on the left-hand side of this page for information about specific home and community gardening topics.
Well-planned and well-managed, even a small food garden can:
- Save money. (But beware!)
- Improve nutrition.
- Provide exercise.
- Improve physical, emotional, and mental health.
- Engage children, elders, and family members with disabilities.
- Provide quality family time.
- Reduce household energy consumption (i.e., shrink your carbon footprint).
- Teach children about the natural world and living responsibly in it.
- Build community.
- Provide habitat for pollinators and other beneficial wildlife.
- Provide inexpensive home landscaping.
- Help families create a sanctuary and plenty of daily activities for "vacationing at home."
If you don't find the information you came looking for
Call our Education Center's toll-free Info Line: 1-877-398-4769. Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
A trained MasterGardener volunteer will help you find the information you need.
Send us your suggestions. Use this online form to offer suggestions for information sources or gardening ideas you think we should include here.
Photo credits: Kathy Martin, Skippy's Vegetable Garden. Used with permission.
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