Expand your kitchen garden beyond the most common crops during this insightful online experience.
Longwood Senior Horticulturist Alex Correia online as she showcases 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. Correia 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
Alex Correia
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.
