Expand your kitchen garden beyond the most common crops during this insightful online experience.
Join co-founder of Truelove Seeds Owen Taylor and Longwood Senior Horticulturist Alex Correia online as they showcase underutilized and heirloom varieties of vegetables and herbs that deserve a place in your garden … and your kitchen! From edible flowers to unusual cucurbits to spices not widely available, learn how these uncommon plants can be sourced, propagated, cultivated, and prepared. Taylor explains how to identify and grow your own ancestral seeds, using his personal journey as an example of how to build a deeper relationship with your garden and the food you eat.
Location
Online, via Zoom
Instructor
Owen Taylor and Alex Correia
Owen Taylor co-founded Truelove Seeds in 2017. Their Philadelphia-based seed company is a collaboration between over 70 small-scale urban and rural farms committed to community food sovereignty, cultural preservation, and sustainable agriculture. Truelove Seeds' model stems from Taylor's 20+ years of work with food justice and urban agriculture and four years spent learning the art of seed saving while managing William Woys Weaver's Roughwood Seed Collection.
Longwood Senior Horticulturist Alex Correia has a background in organic agriculture and is trained in ornamental horticulture at Longwood Gardens. Vegetable growing was her first gardening love, and she enjoys incorporating edibles and cut flowers into ornamental displays.
