Turn your yard wastes and household garbage into gardeners’ Brown Gold. This Tower Hill Botanic Garden workshop on Saturday, June 9 from 10 – 11:30 will teach students how to select safe compost ingredients, and how to blend and process them into a finished product that will improve and enrich the soil to grow healthier flowers, herbs and vegetables.
Christie Higginbottom has worked as a costumed interpreter at Old Sturbridge Village since 1981. From 1984 to 2004 she coordinated the historic horticulture program researching, planning and planting the re-created kitchen and flower gardens at the museum’s historic households. She also supervised the Village’s Herb Garden collection, a garden exhibiting over 300 varieties of historic herbs. From 2004 to 2006 she researched and developed a series of self-guided walking trails interpreting people and the environment in the early 1800s. She researched and designed the 2007-2009 exhibit “Taking Root: Gardening in Pots in the early 1800s.” Now retired from full-time work at OSV, she continues to work in costume part-time and to present garden programs for the Village. $15 for THBG members, $25 for nonmembers. Register at https://towerhillbg.thankyou4caring.org/pages/event-registration-form—cooking-up-compost
