"A Life in the Garden: Tales and Tips for Growing Food in Every Season" with Barbara Damrosch - Thursday, July 24 at 4:00 pm at Garland Farm
Thursday, July 24 at 4:00pm
Garland Farm
$10 members / $20 non-members / free for students
*If you register to attend on Zoom, a link will be sent you separately.
Barbara Damrosch brings a wealth of experience to her recent book A Life in the Garden, exploring themes like the rhythm of the seasons, the satisfaction of growing food, and the therapeutic power of working with soil. She offers thoughts on the role of gardening in modern life and its ability to connect people to nature, creativity and community. In her presentation, she wants to show you how gardening can be a partnership with nature, not a battle, and will get you into the vegetable garden if you are not there already.
Barbara Damrosch is one of the nation's most respected garden experts and writers. For many years she did business as a landscaper and landscape designer in Northwest Connecticut. That interest was expressed in her early book Theme Gardens and in her 1988 book The Garden Primer, which covers gardening in general. Meanwhile, an increasing enthusiasm for growing her own food (and eating the results!) began to shift her focus, and make her writing more personal as well. The result was a weekly column for The Washington Post called "A Cook's Garden" which she authored for nearly 15 years. Her passion for growing edibles culminated in her 1991 marriage to fellow author Eliot Coleman, and the couple's ownership of Four Season Farm, in Harborside, Maine, a year-round experimental market garden, exemplifying small-scale sustainable agriculture.
