VeteransGardenofAugusta

Veterans Garden Raised Bed Build Day! We’re building 10 ADA (Two wheel chair accessible, two table top and six 2’ tall) friendly raised garden beds (8’x4’) using donated cedar and tools from the Home Depot Foundation! and help from volunteer’s from Waynesboro, Harrisonburg and Charlottesville Home Depot’s! and we’d love your help too! Date: April 16 Time: 9:00 AM Location: 212 Frontier Dr, Staunton, VA 24401 No experience needed we’ll have tasks for everyone! Whether you’re handy with...

On top of everything else happening at the Veterans Garden of Augusta, we are making this a real priority. We’re beginning the restoration of the quarter acre hillside behind the garden by removing the invasive Bermuda grass and replacing it with native wildflowers, grasses, sedges and woody plants. The goal is to bring this space back to life as healthy habitat for pollinators and birds. We’re lucky to have guidance from the Virginia Native Plant Society, the Master Naturalists and our...

We’re excited to share some wonderful news for the Veterans Garden. ProFence, a trusted agricultural fencing company serving Virginia and the entire East Coast, has generously offered to donate all the deer fencing needed to protect our garden . You can learn more about their work at ProFence.org . For a young project like ours building everything through volunteer hands, community support, and donated materials this gift is a major step forward. The fence will help protect our growing...