Village Institute for Sustainable Technologies & Agriculture

Sickles High School National Honor Society members who volunteered at VISTA Gardens September 13th

Among the many worthy causes to support, you continue to appreciate VISTA Gardens with your financial contributions. Together, we are cultivating a vibrant and sustainable community for generations to come and we thank you for your ongoing support!

Safer than fogging, mosquito buckets are a simple alternative to manage mosquitoes.  Mosquito fogging harms pets, bees and many other pollinators. These buckets are a safe, affordable way to save butterflies, ladybugs and valued pollinators.  

Harith Talapaneni, a junior in High School and a Boy Scout, recently finished his Eagle project, where he designed, planned, and constr Park and VISTA Gardens. On Friday June 20, 10 Master Gardener Volunteers planted two different species of native milkweed, including Pink swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) and White aquatic milkweed (Asclepias perennis) in the native butterfly garden, before meeting summer campers, ages 10 – 13, at the entrance to the bridge spanning

The Carrollwood Pollinator Corridor has launched with plantings at Carrollwood Village Park and VISTA Gardens. On Friday June 20, 10 Master Gardener Volunteers planted two different species of native milkweed, including Pink swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) and White aquatic milkweed (Asclepias perennis) in the native butterfly garden, before meeting summer campers, ages 10 – 13, at the entrance to the bridge spanning the retention pond.

A community garden in northern Tampa is using sustainability to produce vegetables and local plant life on their roughly three-acre plot of land. It’s called VISTA Gardens, which stands for the Village Institute for Sustainable Technologies and Agriculture. It was started by few people in Carrollwood Village about 11 years ago with very little gardening experience.