Gardening Resources

Learn how to start your garden in this 6 minute video! We’re back with Professor Leon Malan in the Colby-Sawyer College permaculture garden where he takes us from hard, compacted lawn to a fertile garden space that’s ready for your seedlings in just a few easy steps.

If you’re signed up for the Tray it Forward program, if you’re new to gardening, or even if you’ve been gardening for a while and are eager to get a new growing space going, this video is for you!

Welcome gardeners! We're on a mission here in the Kearsarge Area to help grow more gardeners. Why?! Because gardening supports not only food security for more neighbors but also connection to nature and JOY for the spirit!

Whether you received a tray from the Tray it Forward program or you started your garden a different way, this Summer Gardening Video Series will support you from planting to harvesting.

Featured here: getting your garden started.

We’re back with Professor Leon Malan in the Colby-Sawyer College Main Street garden where he digs into Saving Seeds!

If you participate in the Tray it Forward program, if you’re new to gardening, or even if you’ve been gardening for a while, there's always something to learn.

Also check out Parts 2 and 3 of this series - how to save tomato seeds and how to save cucumber seeds.

This is part of the FEED - Food Education, Expansion, and Distributed - Kearsarge Initiative, a collaborative effort to grow gardeners and support food security in the Kearsarge region.

We’re back with Professor Leon Malan in the Colby-Sawyer College Main Street garden where he shows us how to save tomato seeds.

If you participate in the Tray it Forward program, if you’re new to gardening, or even if you’ve been gardening for a while, there's always something to learn.

Also check out Part 3 of this series - how to save cucumber seeds and Part 1 - why save seeds?

This is part of the FEED - Food Education, Expansion, and Distributed - Kearsarge Initiative, a collaborative effort to grow gardeners and support food security in the Kearsarge region of New Hampshire.

We’re back with Professor Leon Malan in the Colby-Sawyer College Main Street garden where he digs into saving cucumber seeds!

If you participate in the Tray it Forward program, if you’re new to gardening, or even if you’ve been gardening for a while, these videos are designed to help us all learn how to help our gardens succeed.

Also check out Parts 1 and 2 of this series - why save seeds and how to save tomato seeds.

This is part of the FEED - Food Education, Expansion, and Distributed - Kearsarge Initiative, a collaborative effort to grow gardeners and support food security in the Kearsarge region.

Join Professor Leon Malan at the Colby-Sawyer College Main Street garden for Part 3 of the Composting at home series. This round we're digging into making the compost! What's the secret to making great compost (that isn't just a smelly pile of rotting food in your yard)?! Watch to find out!

Also check out:

Part 1: Why compost?

Part 2: Building the compost

Join Professor Leon Malan at the Colby-Sawyer College Main Street garden for Part 2 of the Composting at home series. This round we're building the compost system! What's an inexpensive way to get composting at home? Where should your compost go? Watch to find out!

Also check out:

Part 1: Why compost?

Part 3: Making the compost

In this first video, Leon shares all the many benefits of composting at home. How does composting help to combat climate change? Watch to find out!

Also check out:

Part 2: Building the compost system

Part 3: Making the compost Videos prepared by Kearsarge Food Hub. Gardening education and support in the Kearsarge/Lake Sunapee region brought to you by FEED Kearsarge partners!

Hand Pollinating Corn on Baby Beet Farm! If you’re growing corn in your garden, maybe as part of the Abenaki Seeds Project here in the Kearsarge area, you’ll want to hand-pollinate for the best chance of growing kernels.

Julie and Hanna stand in for Leon in our summer gardening video series to try this out for the first time!

The window for doing this is short for best results, about 10-14 days after the silks come out. So! You might be a little late in doing this if you haven’t already, like we were, but it’s worth a shot and good information as you plan for next season!

FEED Kearsarge is a collaborative on a mission the Kearsarge Area of New Hampshire to grow more gardeners. Why?! Because gardening supports not only food security for more neighbors but also connection to nature and JOY for the spirit!

Featured here: how to care for your tomato plants

FEED Kearsarge is a collaborative on a mission the Kearsarge Area of New Hampshire to grow more gardeners. Why?! Because gardening supports not only food security for more neighbors but also connection to nature and JOY for the spirit!

Whether you received a tray from the Tray it Forward program or you started your garden a different way, this Summer Gardening Video Series will support you from planting to harvesting.

Featured here: how to handle slugs and recommendations for fertilizing our gardens.