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Our mission is to educate our members about organic gardening and to provide opportunities to them so that they can grow and harvest vegetables, herbs and flowers within a welcoming community setting.
Garden plots are open to all residents of Andover and surrounding towns who join our Association. Plots that are turning over are offered yearly to people on the waiting list on a first come, first serve basis.
Each Association member contributes an annual plot fee to cover maintenance. To be part of our association, you must be willing to agree to our requirements. These are fairly standard rules for community gardens, with requirements such as gardening organically and participating in workdays and cleanups; and we do try to help new folks with this request by giving lessons/ideas for how to garden organically. Once rented, you plant up your plot, harvest and maintain your own plot for your own family’s use during the gardening season.
Announcements
Pest control - Please hold off on implementing any individual pest control solutions in your bed such as pheromone traps for pests like Japanese beetles. The most effective method of control is manual removal. In the event the board decided additional controls like traps are necessary, we will work with the conservation department to place them appropriately around the outside of the garden..
We recognize not everyone has the space to store supports at home over the winter, and we welcome those gardeners to label and leave supports they would like to reside at the garden over the winter. However, some labels wash off over the winter, and another gardener may have claimed an unlabeled support, thinking it was up for grabs. Please do not remove supports, plants, or anything else from another gardener's plot before speaking to the gardener or the board about the situation. Stealing is grounds for forfeiture of your plot and payment for the season, and you will not be allowed back.
We still have a lengthy waitlist, so please don't wait to begin planting! While some plants may not take off right away without more heat, temperatures should be high enough now for most plants to begin making themselves at home. We enforce a June 2nd "Start planting by" deadline so that anyone who has changed their mind can forfeit their plot and allow others from the waitlist to get started before the season's halfway mark later in July. If your plans have changed or gardening isn't for you after all, please reach out to the board, we are happy to offer tips or take the plot off your hands!
Lisette & the ACGA Board
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High Plain Road Garden
The main garden is located on the Virginia Hammond Reservation, on High Plain Road across from the leaf composting site. The site has 65 plots:
4 feet x 10 feet plot: $34
4 feet x 20 feet plot: $68
5 feet x 10 feet plot: $42.50
5 feet x 25 feet plot: $106.25
There is a small parking lot with some allowance for parking on the grass when it is full. It usually accommodates most cars at a given time and the grass parking can be used on workdays.
Main Street Garden
Nestled behind the Andover Center for History and Culture at 97 Main Street, this smaller garden has 11 plots of two different sizes:
5 feet x 20 feet plot: $85
5 feet x 10 feet plot: $42.50
In downtown Andover the parking is tight. There are a few spaces located adjacent to the Andover Center for History and Culture and on the street in front of it. Paid parking is available in the town lot just up from the site, beside UBurger.
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