Slow Food City's Edge - Spring Garden Events!

Would you like to learn more about Organic Gardening in small spaces? How about apple grafting techniques? Or learn how to prepare and preserve what you grow at home? Slow Food City’s Edge is a local chapter of Slow Food, an international organization with members worldwide who celebrate local and seasonal food traditions, support sustainable agriculture, and embrace the pleasures of eating good food.


Slow Food City’s Edge is a local chapter that is sponsoring two new events in March and April.  If you have the time, check them out.  There's plenty to learn and it's a fun group. 

“Apple Grafting Workshop” will take place at Cantigny in Wheaton on March 20 at 1:00 PM. Presented by Oriana Krajewski, expert orchardist, member of the Midwest Fruit Explorers and a market fruit grower who specializes in Asian Pears. Oriana will explain how to graft the wood of Pixie Crunch (scion wood) while it's dormant onto the root stock of a dwarf tree or a small tree. The graft will have time to knit together before the growing season starts. Cost: $45.00 Price includes admission to the workshop and the Pixie Crunch tree. Attendees will have access to additional trees for grafting at a nominal fee.

(Thanks to Cameron Cross via his father-in-law Cliff Whall for this cool photo.  Cameron grew these beauties, which are so artfully arranged on the family's kitchen counter in the south of France.  Tomatoes galore!)

“Let's Grow at Home” is presented by Vicki Nowicki landscape designer at Liberty Gardens in Downers Grove on Sunday, April 30 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Vicki will give a hands-on blueprint for organic vegetable gardening in her own garden in Downers Grove where she and her husband Ron have gardened in for 30 years. Cost is $15. Find more on these programs here.

-- Nina A. Koziol http://www.thisgardencooks.com/