I’m a huge fan of Garden Design magazine, and delighted to be featured on page 88 of the spring 2018 issue, with superb photography by Dave Barnum. It is an honor to be included along with other notable gardeners, and appreciate the tremendous effort that goes into a magazine of this caliber. Be sure to pick up a copy and become a subscriber so you don’t miss an issue.
It was spring of 2016, when editor Thad Orr called to ask me to create three heirloom garden designs. The idea percolated for a while, as we discussed how to define heirloom verses open pollinated. These conversations, plus my research set me on the path to discovery and learn more about the art and science of seed saving, and what it meant to grow heirlooms.
For the past year, I’ve been writing a new book and working on more designs, featuring heirloom plants. I have only a week before my manuscript is due, and hoping that my editor will be pleased. The book will feature twelve kitchen garden designs, with a plant key to suggest what heirlooms to grow, plant descriptions, and recipes.
Publication date is spring 2019 (Rodale), and the idea is to bridge the old with the new – creating fanciful, beautiful gardens that refresh all of the senses; better flavor, more fragrance and discover the stories behind seeds that have been handed down from family to family.
I hope that by sharing this love of growing food, and showing you how simple it is to create a beautiful kitchen garden, that you will plant a seed, watch it grow, and take time to cultivate your own kitchen garden. When we learn to be responsible consumers, and practice sustainability as well as appreciation, we reclaim our health as a nation.
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