Resources & Workshops
The South Burlington Library Offers Workshops!
Each year, the Library holds 3-4 fun and educational workshops for gardeners. In a typical year we hold programs on a variety of topics, bringing in experts to share their knowledge. Workshops may include:
- Mid winter: Seed swap and giveaway plus tables of info on a variety of gardening topics staffed by Master Gardeners. Sometimes demos or slideshows too!
- Spring: Seed starting, garden planning
- Summer: Composting, container and small space gardening, gardening with native plants, beginner botany
- Fall: Preserving the harvest, seed saving, soil health
Check the Library’s event calendar to see what’s coming up! You can narrow your results by choosing ‘Gardening’ or ‘Seed Library’ from the topic list in the page’s side bar as you see below.
Gardening Books at the Library
The library also has a robust collection of gardening and garden-related books. These can be found on the second floor in the adult nonfiction area and in the children’s collection on the first floor. In the adult nonfiction area, look in the 630 – 636 section.
You can also search our catalog using the keywords ‘gardening’, or ‘seed saving’, or add any other keyword depending on what type of gardening information you are looking for.
Here is a list of some of the gardening related titles you can borrow from the library.
Regional & Online Resources
- Burlington Garden Club of Vermont
- Hardy Plant club of Northern Vermont
- Burlington Wildways
- Grow Wild
- Friends of the UVM Horticulture Farm
- Federated Garden Clubs of Vermont
- UVM Community Horticulture (includes Master Gardener and Master Composter training information)
- South Burlington Community Gardens
- Burlington Community Garden Network (open to all area residents)
- Winooski Valley Park District Community Gardens
- High Mowing Organic Seeds (Wolcott, VT)
- Gardener’s Supply (Burlington, VT)
- Fruition Seeds (Naples, NY)
- Hudson Valley Seed Company (Accord, NY)
- Fedco Seeds (Clinton, ME)
- Elmore Roots Nursery (Elmore, VT) Specializes in fruit and nut trees/shrubs.
- Horsford Garden and Nursery (Charlotte, VT)
- Arcana (Jericho, VT) Carries medicinal and culinary herb seedlings, and a wide variety of pepper and tomato seedlings too.
- Gardener’s Supply (Burlington and Williston, VT)
- Gardener’s Supply Blog
- High Mowing Seeds Blog
- Fruition Seeds Learning Video Library
- Charles Dowding No Dig Gardening
- Square Foot Gardening
- VPR’s All Things Gardening
- UVM Extension Including Help Line with Master Gardeners