Victory Garden

The Victory Garden demonstrates how to grow vegetables and provides hands-on educational classes to the public. 

Originally part of a tomato growing trial, the area inside the fence is now used to conduct a season-long, vegetable gardening workshop for the public which we call The Victory Garden.

The Victory Garden is a weekly, summer long class held during the growing season from April to September. Classes are held each week providing a unique experience for class members to learn about and to participate in the process of vegetable gardening starting from soil preparation in spring to the final fall harvest and preparing the garden for winter.

A combination of weekly classes is designed to increase knowledge and hands-on work in the garden and create greater confidence in the abilities of the participants to grow their own gardens at home. They also earn the reward of taking home all produce grown in the garden.

Master Gardeners teach the classes and provide individualized assistance in the garden. As the summer progresses, the group bonds and shares garden experiences, methods of preserving the harvest, seeds and plants, and recipes. It becomes a community garden where the love of vegetable gardening is nurtured.

The garden is host to the Franklin County Master Gardener team of Grow-Save-Repeat (GSR). This program aims to show home gardeners of all experience levels how to save the seeds from their garden as well as how to breed their own unique varieties of fruits and vegetables through a few simple steps. GSR is a partnership between the Penn State Extension Master Gardener program and Dr. Sarah Dohle of Delaware Valley University.