PVCC Horticulture Club & Community Garden

PVCC Horticulture Club & Community Garden An organic garden available for students and community members to use as a practical learning platform for environmentally sound horticulture.

05/05/2025

Eighteen years in existence now and the garden has been the beneficiary of untold hours of volunteer time and occasionally donations. Those donations can be monetary, as in direct funds or a person…

On Saturday in the garden about half a dozen volunteers helped unload Adrian’s truck full of aged horse manure and shavi...
04/01/2025

On Saturday in the garden about half a dozen volunteers helped unload Adrian’s truck full of aged horse manure and shavings, then busily set to work incorporating it into their plots. It really is a wonderful community feeling to watch people working in tandem, in separate plots but connected, feeling good about working in the garden together. Sunday was another beautiful day, with about a dozen volunteers from UVA’s Madison House, Sigma Nu fraternity, and other assorted places coming to help out. We planted potatoes, onions, and a slew of other seeds. A new gardener started her first plot, planning with her kids excitedly what they intend to grow this year. Happy Spring, everyone!

06/13/2024

Last week, I cranked up the ol’ mower and ran it around the place. It might not seem like that has much to do with gardening, but it absolutely does. During the course of the 1.5 hours it tak…

Who remembers being greeted at the garden by this peach tree?
04/02/2024

Who remembers being greeted at the garden by this peach tree?

04/02/2024

If you live in Virginia and have the capacity to see, a simple glimpse outside the window may elicit a quickened pulse if you’re lucky enough to be within eyeshot of the Eastern Redbud (Cerci…

Yesterday was the 2023 United Way Day of Caring and we had nearly 40 people from two areas of UVA volunteer from 9-12. A...
09/21/2023

Yesterday was the 2023 United Way Day of Caring and we had nearly 40 people from two areas of UVA volunteer from 9-12. Again, it was a beautiful weather day. Just amazing how this happens on this special volunteer day year after year.

One team was led by Rose Oliveira-Abbey and came from the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. The second team was lead by Tim Robinson with UVA’s Communications team. It was just awesome to work with them and I hope that they will come back to the garden again.

When you next come to the garden take a walk around and admire all the work that got done!

A few highlights:

The shed has been thoroughly organized

Two new vegetable planting stands have been assembled

The hoop house was thoroughly cleaned, old insulation was removed, and the bed space had compost added and was planted. The bed space around it was weeded.

A new umbrella was set out (though I’d like to figure out how to increase the height). Help?

A new picnic table was installed with a concrete footer.

The poison ivy by the front corner was cut off the fence and removed. There was a lot of it and we had a volunteer (Jonelle) who wasn’t allergic! Amazing.

Huge amounts of vines were cut off the fence and removed. There is more to be done, but it was a great start.

The overgrown compost area was cleaned and is now usable. Feel free to add it to your plots. Please keep it clean.

Overgrown areas were trimmed, including trimming around all the garden beds.

Trash and broken bits were removed.

And more! Too much to list. What a wonderful day. I would like to give a special shout out to John and Mac, both of whom showed up for hours, worked hard and supervised volunteers. I would also like to recognize Kim, who made sure that the broken bits and trash that were moved to the curb were quickly removed. It takes a crew of people to keep this many volunteers working well and I’m grateful to all those who were able to come.

08/03/2023

We were happy to host some fine young people from the Madison Boys and Girls Club. They worked hard, despite the heat, and learned a little more about what it’s like in a community garden.

Approximately a dozen members of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, a wonderful community-based organization, volunteered i...
05/19/2023

Approximately a dozen members of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, a wonderful community-based organization, volunteered in the PVCC Community Garden a few Sundays ago. We had a wonderful few hours spent cleaning up a garden bed and planting two fruit trees: an apple and a peach. We were fortunate, and the days weather was perfect, sandwiched between hard rain the day before and rain the day after.

The ladies worked hard! And they are welcome back anytime to work in the garden and watch their donated trees grow. Thank you to all of them, especially Dr. Keisha Taylor for arranging the date.

Recently we said farewell to this spring's student volunteers. A few will stay on for summer, managing individual plots....
05/08/2023

Recently we said farewell to this spring's student volunteers. A few will stay on for summer, managing individual plots. Others will be back in the fall to volunteer again. A few, some of who have spent years with us, are graduating. Included among that last group are "Boss Lady" and "The Admiral", Madison House Project Directors who have been such a huge part of the garden. They will be greatly missed.

04/04/2023

The weather Sunday was sunny and beautiful but it couldn’t compare to the smiles of the women’s volleyball team as they spent several hours in the garden learning about growing food and…

10/04/2022

September 21st dawned clear and bright the way the Day of Caring always does in Charlottesville, VA. It shone on hundreds, perhaps thousands, of eager folks looking forward to the largest day of vo…

08/15/2022

Gardening in the summer can feel so overwhelming at times with the heat, humidity, insects, groundhogs, occasional drought (not this year) and sheer exuberant growth. So by late summer many gardens…

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