resource conservation, ecosystem health, sustainability - Edible Architecture : Raised Beds & Terraces

Well placed and designed garden beds can accent the topography of your landscape while passively harvesting water and nutrients, reducing your efforts for a verdant garden. Clearly defined raised beds and pathways help avoid soil compaction, allowing the soil to act as a living sponge and loose medium for plant roots. Starting your garden out with raised beds goes a far way to assure your planting success. Terraces and tiered landscaping gardens add instant architecture and growing space to otherwise uneventful and unproductive slopes. Like raised garden beds on contour terraces passively harvest rain water while stabilizing slopes and show casing gardens in unique and creative ways. Terraces present wonderful possibilities in the garden. They are outdoor living rooms during good weather and form a transition from the outdoors to the indoors throughout the year.

Instructors: Farmer Kim / Farmer Raye
Fee: $35 / Registration Deadline: June 14