Community Garden

The Monson Community Garden at Keep Homestead Museum was established in 2011, just in time for the tornado and “Snow-tober.”

The garden is all volunteer and organic with a maximum of 16 full size plots 25 x 25 sq. ft.  Any of these can be divided into 12 x 25 sq. ft. half plots. There are also two 8’ x 40” raised gardens for low-mobility gardeners.

Thanks to the town of Monson and the Friends of the Keep Homestead Museum, there is town water available for irrigation from a faucet at the corner of every four plots, a lockable storage shed for gardening tools, a tractor, and a porta-potty.

The local gardeners who use the Community Garden plots have benefitted from sponsorship support. Interest in the garden is appreciated. Financial help allows for expenses such as a tractor break down, the cost of planting a cover crop in the fall, and on and on.