✨ Join a fun evening to craft your own festive garland from raw materials provided by Backyard Growers, including dehydrated citrus, popcorn, salted gingerbread, and more. Light refreshments will be provided.
💚 Proceeds from this event support Backyard Growers’ mission to cultivate healthy, connected, resilient communities by empowering people to grow their own food. Come have some festive fun and support a great cause!
Each year, Backyard Growers provides programming to teach Cape Ann residents vegetable gardening, cooking, and food preservation skills, in addition to creating opportunities for neighbors to connect and learn from each other.
We want YOU to tell us what workshops you’d be interested in for the 2024 growing season so we can create a community calendar for all.
Complete the survey here by Tuesday, October 10. Share your questions at community@backyardgrowers.org or 978-281-0480.
Join us for Backyard Growers‘ annual fall fundraiser, The Great Gloucester GrowDown. At this year’s GrowDown, Backyard Growers will share stories from our community’s 2023 growing season and toast the power of growing food together.
Enjoy a delicious farm-to-table dinner with ingredients sourced from local North Shore farms and prepared by the magicians at Short & Main, plus signature seasonal cocktails. Contribute to a live fund-a-need auction to support our work empowering people to grow their own food, and connect with your community over the joy of supporting each other and growing food together!
Tickets are selling out fast! Proceeds support Backyard Growers’ work building healthy, connected, resilient communities by empowering people to grow their own food in Gloucester and beyond.
Backyard Growers is on the hunt for a School Garden Program Manager & Educator to lead and implement our seed-to-fork school garden programs in Gloucester Public Schools, pre-K through grade 12, and beyond.
This is a key role on our programs team – join us and have a direct impact on how kids engage with the food they eat (and grow!) in our community.
Backyard Growers is a Gloucester-based 501(C)3 nonprofit organization with a commitment to cultivating healthy, connected, resilient communities by empowering people to grow their own food.
A beginner’s guide to foraging the weeds from your vegetable garden
Learn the fundamentals of foraging local plants including dandelions, purslane, and lamb’s quarter, so you can “eat your weeds.”
In this workshop, Backyard Growers offers a new perspective on common plants that pop up in your raised garden beds. By the end of this workshop not only will you have the fundamental tools to forage these local plants, but you’ll also attain a deeper appreciation for how these plants came to be and their place in our diets, too.
Learn how to identify common plant challenges and overcome them in your vegetable garden.
Plants communicate their needs to us, but it takes a careful observer to understand what they’re saying. From too much watering to under- or over-feeding, this workshop will help attendees recognize common issues and needs of your specific crops as well as amendments to help mitigate the problems.
Join Backyard Growers for this in-person at Burnham’s Field Community Garden in downtown Gloucester for this hands-on lesson.
Healthy soil, sanitary tools, and cooperation with other life forms are the keys to our most effective approach to pest management in your vegetable garden: prevention! In this online workshop, Backyard Growers will walk you through how to minimize human, microbiological, and plant risk by using the ecosystem as the starting point to diagnose pest issues threatening your harvest.
Backyard Growers is a Gloucester-based 501(C)3 nonprofit organization committed to cultivating healthy, connected, resilient communities by empowering people to grow their own food.
Keep your tomatoes healthy so they can produce the most delicious fruit this season!
In this workshop, Backyard Growers Program Coordinator Xavier will share the most important things to take care of to ensure good tomato health, including tomato ailments and challenges to watch for. We’ll also give examples of different trellising styles and their uses to give you a range of methods to keep your tomato plants growing upright.
Join us to keep your tomato skills sharp!
📆 June 8, 4:30-5:30pm
📍 Burnham’s Field Community Garden (Courtside – by the basketball courts)
FREE for Backyard Growers program participants (eg 2023 Backyard Garden, Community Garden, GrowBag Garden Programs)
$15 general admission – proceeds support Backyard Growers’ work to build healthy, connected, resilient communities by empowering people to grow their own food
Learn more & purchase your tickets.
Backyard Growers’ May Seedling Sale is open for online ordering through Wednesday, May 17, for curbside pickup and in-person shopping on Saturday, May 20. Purchase veggie seedlings including a variety of tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, and basil started by our pals at Cedar Rock Gardens. We sell individual plants rather than four-packs.
This sale also features other growing supplies including Neptune’s Harvest fish & seaweed fertilizer, High Mowing Organic Seeds, GrowBags, and more. All orders will be available for pickup at Backyard Growers HQ on Saturday, May 20, 11am-2pm. Plus, we’ll have extra seedlings and other goodies for in-person purchase.
Proceeds support our work building healthy, connected, resilient communities by empowering people to grow their own food. Stop by to say hello and get your veggie garden up and running for the 2023 growing season!
Join community gardener & yoga teacher Jasmine Epstein for this hybrid yin yoga class designed specifically for gardeners — including deep stretches and release for the neck, shoulders, and back.
📆 Friday, April 28, 4pm
📍 You can attend this class in-person at Backyard Growers HQ or online.
FREE for Backyard Growers program participants / $15 general admission. Proceeds support our work building healthy, connected, resilient communities by empowering people to grow their own food. Thanks to Jasmine for donating her time and talent by leading this class!
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