BRATTLEBORO — The Brattleboro Recreation and Parks Department is taking reservations for the Ames Brook Community Garden. This garden is located in the nine-acre Stockwell Park on Stockwell Drive overlooking the Ames Brook in West Brattleboro.
The garden has seventeen 100-square-foot plots along with common crops of raspberries, a small asparagus patch, and flower beds. There is a charcoal grill, picnic table, umbrella, and Adirondack chairs for all to use and enjoy.
There are garden tools from shovels and rakes to wheelbarrows for gardeners to use along with organic pest sprays. The garden also provides wood chips from BUHS Christmas tree collection fundraiser and Brattlegrow compost, made in part from Brattleboro's curbside organics collection program.
All gardeners from the inexperienced to the master are welcome. Should the commitment of a plot be too much, you can still have a gardening experience helping with common areas upkeep, such as deadheading, thinning flowers, weeding, and spreading wood chips.
Returning gardeners have until April 1 to sign up for the regular fee of $25; after that the fee increases to $35. New gardeners can sign up starting April 3 for $25; after April 30 it increases to $35. New gardeners will also be required to pay a $25 garden plot deposit.
Reservations will be on a first come, first served basis. To reserve your garden plot, call the Recreation & Parks Office at 802-254-5808.