The Ecological Landscaping Association will sponsor The Edible Landscape at Wellesley College with tour guide Tricia Diggins on Monday, August 18, from 5 – 7 on campus in Wellesley. $20 for ELA and Friends of Wellesley College Botanic Garden members, $25 for nonmembers, free for Wellesley College students.
Join Tricia to explore three main components of the Wellesley College Botanic Gardens edible landscape. As part of its collection policy, the WCBG is collecting and interpreting plants as food for humans and other organisms. The tour will start in the kitchen garden courtyard that includes an herb garden, a vegetable garden, and other small fruit and nut plants. The design for the vegetable garden changes each year and this year will be modeled after a Russian dacha garden.
You will then move on to the Edible Ecosystem Teaching Garden and check on the progress of the garden started in 2010 and a new outdoor classroom. The garden was designed by forest and permaculture specialists Dave Jacke and Keith Zaltzberg. The garden features fruit and nut trees planted in association with herbaceous polycultures to maximize ecological functions using a wide diversity of pants.
Lastly, you will walk to the nut tree collection in the Alexandra Botanic Garden and see a variety of native nut trees (and a few non-native as well), along with a 9 year old grove of paw paws (see picture of cluster below.)Â Register on line at https://www.eventville.com/catalog/eventregistration1.asp?eventid=1010983.
