Home Gardener Series: Planting & Developing a Food Forest

Home Gardener Series: Planting & Developing a Food Forest

Learn all about Food Forests and they can benefit you, your health, your budget and help the ecosystem.

By N.C. Cooperative Extension, Clay County

Date and time

Wednesday, May 22 · 2 - 3pm EDT

Location

Clay County Extension Office

25 Riverside Circle Hayesville

About this event

Topic Info: Join Horticulturist Adam Bigelow to learn all about Food Forests and they can benefit you, your health, your budget and help the ecosystem we all share and benefit from. You will learn the basics of Food Forest planning including site selection, appropriate Plant choices, maintenance needs among other topics. Attendees will leave with knowledge and confidence to begin our enhance their own Food Forest at their homes and properties.

Bio: Adam Bigelow is a horticulturist and 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 founder of the Cullowhee Community Garden. Adam is a member of the planning committee for the Cullowhee Native Plant Conference, the largest and one of the oldest Native Plant conferences in the country and has attended the conference for many years. Adam lives in Cullowhee at 3,600 ft surrounded by Native Plants and Wildflowers with his dog Magnolia fraseri, and two cats Hazel Alder and Silky Willow

Organized by

N.C. Cooperative Extension, Clay County

 Clay County Center

25 Riverside Cir, Suite 2

Hayesville, NC 28904

OPEN MON-FRI: 8A-5P

(828) 389-6305

https://clay.ces.ncsu.edu/

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