The Garden Plot 

The Garden Plot is a collaboration between Traditional Arts in Upstate New York (TAUNY) and NCPR to collect information about North Country fruit and vegetable gardeners. This information will become part of TAUNY's permanent research collection and will be available online for gardeners to learn from each other. We want to hear from home gardeners, professional growers, and community groups or schools who cultivate an edible landscape. This is a great opportunity to show off your own garden and learn about others who share your enthusiasm.

Here's how you can participate:

Register your garden with The Garden Plot

1. Complete a registration form for The Garden Plot. It will only take a few minutes. We'd like to gather basic information about regional gardeners, such as what you grow, what folk wisdom you bring to your gardening, and how you process it for winter consumption. We want to hear about your garden, but we'd also love to know about other experienced gardeners in your neighborhood who might be reluctant to participant in an online project. If you know someone whose garden should be shared with others in the North Country, ask if you can sign up for that person.
   
   
2. Once you are registered, we'd like you to submit one photograph of your garden every two weeks or so, with a brief caption. We will post these photos on a google map, where visitors to our website can search by location to take an online tour of North Country vegetable gardens.
   
   
3. Participate in The Garden Plot blog this growing season. We will post questions throughout the growing season for you to respond to. This will be a great chance to meet other gardeners online and learn a few new tricks.

TAUNY's mission is to showcase the folk culture and living traditions of the North Country. All Garden Plot materials will be added to TAUNY's permanent archive. TAUNY will schedule public programs based on the findings in 2011. 

Jill Breit talks about The Garden Plot project on NCPR's The Eight O'clock Hour: