Some Exciting News to share!
In collaboration with the City of Fairfield, the Sustainable Living Coalition has received grant funding for a new project called the “Fairfield Garden Initiative.” This beautiful new project was created to support low to medium-income individuals and households in Jefferson County to overcome the challenges of food insecurity through organic gardening.
Through this program, we will be offering the following opportunities for the local community:
- Free plant starts – up to 30 per household. The Free Plant portion of the FGI program has closed for the 2022 growing season. Stay tuned for more updates.
- Education and Training Program: a series of 12 hands-on workshops from setting up your garden to harvesting and preserving your produce
- Tool and Resource Lending Library: Providing compost, soil, and garden tools and materials to the local community
Fairfield Garden Initiative Program Performance Updates
Garden Educational Modules
Basic Gardening Tips – From quick garden bed preparations and transplanting to pest management and harvesting. Use the form below to comment or ask questions about the video modules.
Video Gallery
Garden Tool Lending Library
These garden tools are available to Fairfield Garden Initiative program participants. To inquire fill out the contact form below.
Resources mentioned in the video modules
Garden fertility and inoculants
Soil and plant feeds
- Thorvin kelp info https://www.midwesternbioag.com/products/thorvin-kelp/
- A simple DIY Kelp foliar prep https://buildasoil.com/blogs/news/11759569-diy-instant-kelp-meal-tea-coots-hydrated-kelp-meal-trick
- Plant-Sure info https://www.agri-dynamics.com/_files/ugd/18d20e_885023237764460bb739108befa0410b.pdf
- Forage Blend info https://www.advancingecoag.com/store/Forage-Foliar-Blend-c20204104
- Meso Alfalfa info https://rodaleinstitute.org/blog/diy-alfalfa-fertilizer-for-higher-yields/
Seed and transplant inoculants
- Spectrum with Myco info https://www.tainio.com/product/spectrum-myco/
- BioCoat Gold info https://www.advancingecoag.com/store/BioCoat-Gold-c20998048
What to plant now
What we can still plant now
Fruition Seed offers great reminders https://www.fruitionseeds.com/learn/
Garden task reminders
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Tips for a happy garden
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FGI Participant Testimonials
Are you interested in participating?
Join the email list. We will be sharing details about the program throughout the 2022 and 2023 growing seasons. Our subsequent plant distribution will begin in spring 2023. All free plant starts will be reserved for participating LMI community members. Check if you qualify by using the table below.
2021 CDBG Median Income Levels (MFI) Income Limits effective June 1, 2021 [MS Excel:40k]
| 1 person 80% MFI | 2 person 80% MFI | 3 person 80% MFI | 4 person 80% MFI | 5 person 80% MFI | 6 person 80% MFI | 7 person 80% MFI | 8 person 80% MFI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $40,250 | $46,000 | $51,750 | $57,450 | $62,050 | $66,650 | $71,250 | $75,850 |
Stay updated on the FGI Program by joining our email list.
We appreciate your interest in the Fairfield Garden Initiative program. By filling out this form, you will opt-in to our email communications. Because this program offers resources and knowledge, we will need to communicate with program participants via email for workshops, activities, and resource coordination. We will aim to send emails relating only to program-specific details. Please opt-in to this email list if you want to join the program.
Stay tuned and keep an eye on your inbox. We will send emails with updates about filmed educational modules, workshops, tool lending library, and other resources.