The NY Times recently reported on the New York Blotanical Garden’s Edible Gardening Festival. It’s a summer-long festival that aims to encourage people to grow their own vegetables but also showcases chefs using the produce to create some of their dishes.
I love this idea and what it might achieve in helping people see that they too could create their own garden. There are demonstrations on how to set up edible gardens, tours of some of the local community gardens that exist in the New York area and classes for families to create their own vegetable garden.
This could be one facet of gardening that would help ensure the success of our annual gardening shows but, correct me if I’m wrong, it doesn’t seem to exist much.
I’d love to know what might be happening in your area that celebrates edible gardens, if it happens at all.
Hi Stewart, love the photo of the monk tending the garden. Lots of people still have the old style veggie gardens with perfect rows including staked tomatoes and bamboo teepees for pole beans. The local dairy, which is a big employer here, Mayfield, has bought some property with old barns and is growing produce to sell as in indoor farmer’s market. They said the area restaurants are good customers too, ensuring this business will survive the tough economic times. The prices are so cheap and the produce so good, it will change what we grow at the house in the future. Maybe we will go to all tomatoes, our best crop.
Frances