Monadnock Grows Together
Monadnock Grows Together is a free local resource for gardeners and small-scale urban farmers looking for advice, information, and support. Workshops and events provide a place to connect with other growers.
Gardening Resources for the Monadnock Region
As part of this project, local growers in Keene, NH and surrounding towns gain access to valuable gardening resources such as:
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A Garden Tool Lending program at the Keene Public Library Makerspace
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Free seeds and seed saving resources at Keene Public Library
Check out Garden Tools from the Tool Lending Library!
Visit the Kingsbury Makerspace at the Keene Public Library (KPL) to check out any of our garden tools for 1 week intervals! Free of charge & no library card needed to participate! See a few of the tools available below! KPL also offers a wide range of adaptive tools for gardeners of all skill levels and abilities!
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Seeds can also be checked out free of charge at the Frost Free Library in Marlborough, NH!
This is a tool used to manually break up hard soil, to improve aeration and drainage.
This battery-powered seeder is great for any seed you wish to broadcast, from lawn grass, to cover crops, or baby greens.
A spade has a flat edge (not a rounded or pointed edge). It is most useful for cutting. For example, if you need to line the edge of a garden bed.
It is useful for loosening soil. For example, to prepare a garden bed or to loosed large weeds before pulling them out.
Can be used to rake soil smooth and break up clumps, before planting in a seed bed.
This is a great hand weeding tool! Really versatile in small spaces.
A hand fork is a tool used for weeding and for loosening soil, on a smaller scale than a garden/digging fork.
A hand rake is used for loosening soil in a garden bed. They can be useful when prepping small areas for seeds, or digging out weeds.
Used for removing weeds. Best used when the soil is dry. You should stand as upright as possible, and aim to cut off the weeds just under the surface of the soil.
This seeder is great for row crops. It has interchangeable plates, so it can be used with seeds of different sizes.
A shovel has a rounded or pointed edge (not a flat edge). It is most useful for digging and moving soil.
Garden trowels are used for digging small holes in the garden. For example, to transplant seedlings. They can also be used for digging out small weeds.
Thank you to our partners & funders!
Monadnock Grows Together is funded by the Urban Agriculture Conservation grant Initiative. The National Association of Conservation Districts (NACD) and USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) established the Urban Agriculture Conservation Grant Initiative in 2016 to help conservation districts and their partners provide much-needed technical assistance for agricultural conservation in developed or predominantly developing areas. Since July of 2016, NACD and NRCS have awarded six rounds of grants, totaling over $4 million to 81 conservation district projects across 34 states.
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The CCCD is working in partnership with Antioch University New England's Community Garden Connections (CGC), the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT), Monadnock Farm and Community Coalition (MFCC), and the Keene Public Library within the city of Keene, NH to offer technical assistance, education, and gardening equipment to small-scale urban farmers and gardeners for growing their production capacity while conserving natural resources such as soil health, water quality, and pollinator habitat.
