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Native Plants for the Vegetable Garden
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ONSITE | Thursday, March 14, 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Instructor: Adam Bigelow
$35 Adult Non-Member
(**Arboretum Members receive a 10% discount on all classes.)
BREG - Elective, 1 hour | BRN - Elective, 1 hour
Limit: 24
In Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard, Author Doug Tallamy makes an instructive analogy when it comes to the subject of this class: “Gardening is like cooking,” says Tallamy. “It is tempting to cook only with the goal of achieving great taste, with no thought of healthy eating, but that often results in tasty concoctions so full of fat, sugar, and salt that they are deadly in the long run. Similarly, it is tempting to garden only for beauty, without regard to the many ecological roles our landscapes must perform. All too often, such narrow gardening goals result in a landscape so low in ecological function that it drains the vitality from the surrounding ecosystem.”
Horticulturist and community garden organizer Adam Bigelow leads this class on how to integrate native plants into our foodscapes in ways that will benefit us, our gardens, and the landscapes and ecosystems we depend upon. We will discuss how native plants can help attract beneficial insects, beautify vegetable and flower gardens, and provide nutrition and good taste to the dinner plate.
Join us in April for Arboretum Reads Nature’s Best Hope by Doug Tallamy, a two-session reading circle led by Environmental Educator Libby Oswalt.
Adam Bigelow is a horticulturist and amateur botanist who lives in Cullowhee, NC, and has been studying the plants and wildflowers of Southern Appalachia for over 20 years. Adam is the owner/operator of Bigelow’s Botanical Excursions, an eco-tour business leading guided plant walks in WNC. He is an avid organic gardener and founded and managed the Cullowhee Community Garden for ten years. Adam is a long-time attendee, field trip leader, and steering committee member of the Cullowhee Native Plant Conference, the largest and oldest annual conference focusing on Native Plants on the East Coast. Adam has lived in WNC for 30 years.
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