Lisa Taylor, author of Your Farm in the City: An Urban Dweller’s Guide to Growing Food and Raising Animals (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2011), lives in Shoreline, Washington with her partner, son and 4 chickens on their city farm. She is Education Program Manager for Seattle Tilth and spends most days growing and eating plants with children. She is passionate about teaching children and their parents where their food comes from and how to care for living things. For Lisa, eating is the main reason for growing plants. Organic, local food never tasted better.
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Website: www.seattletilth.org

Eating Your Landscape
Exploring Edibles as Landscape Trees, Shrubs & Annuals
Sun, Feb 12 at 12:30 pm / Hood Room
Edible landscapes start in the vegetable garden but they needn’t end there. Explore how selecting edibles as landscape trees, shrubs and annuals can feed the family year round. In addition to traditional vegetable gardens, including multi-purpose elements in your plant selections creates a beautiful, flavorful landscape. Edible landscapes can also lead to healthier eating and cooking. Harvesting and preparing food from your landscape are wonderful family and community experiences. We’ll talk about organic gardening best practices and techniques that enrich the soil and foster biological diversity. We’ll explore the elements of an edible landscape and discuss criteria for selecting edibles. We will also talk about ways to eat your landscape and to preserve your harvest.

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