Madison FarmWorks Capitol Vegetable Garden
Madison FarmWorks has designed and installed a 400 square foot demonstration vegetable garden at the State Capitol in Madison for the second season. The garden will features attractive and easy to grow vegetables for the home garden and highlights popular vegetable varieties selected from our CSA farm. Each variety will be labeled and visitors will have a chance to watch the progress of each variety throughout the season. You can download a copy of the garden design here.
We hope that the vegetable garden will:
- demonstrate the tremendous possibilities of organic urban agriculture to the thousands of visitors who admire the Capitol grounds each season.
- inspire residents to cultivate their own vegetable gardens and introduce them to vegetables that are attractive and easy to grow.
- encourage healthy eating by highlighting fresh local produce.
- serve as a beautiful and compelling backdrop to the Dane County Farmers Market.
Produce from the garden will be donated to the Goodman Community Center Food Pantry.
Community GroundWorks installs and maintains the garden as a volunteer project - if you'd like to support the garden please consider making a donation to our organization here.
The Community GroundWorks blog will feature updates on the garden throughout the season!
