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Back to EpisodesEdible Garden Artistry with Potager Gardens + School Gardens that don't Fizzle
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A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here.
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Oklahoma garden designer Linda Vater loves to create elegant edible gardens. Her work is inspired by the tradition of the potager garden.
We talk about:
- Potager gardens
- Making ornamental and elegant edible gardens
- Design elements such as enclosure
- How to design your own potager-style garden
Linda's new book is The Elegant & Edible Garden.
In the second part of the show we catch up with Sunday Harrison from Green Thumbs Growing Kids in Toronto. We're big fans of this non-profit that brings gardening to school kids and communities in downtown neighbourhoods.
We find out more about their model, which solves a common challenge of school gardens: Summer.
We talk about:
- Why working with a cluster of schools helps with summer care
- Summer community involvement
- A project that gets kids growing trees from seed
A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here.