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  • Saturday, June 12, 10:00 am – 11:00 am – New Heirloom Garden Design, Online

    Join the delicious revolution by learning about heirloom vegetables, forgotten fruits and fragrant flowers. This Berkshire Botanical Garden online lecture by Ellen Ecker Ogden is based on her newest book, The New Heirloom Garden, published in February 2021 with Rodale Books. Discover what to grow for the best-tasting vegetables and dig deeper into the diverse world of open-pollinated seeds to become a seed saver. Learn how to grow something new that is old and revel in growing your own seeds to sow each year in your own garden, and to share with friends. In this lecture, you will learn Ellen’s six steps to successful kitchen garden design based on productivity and beauty, with designs and photographs from her new book. Be inspired to plant varieties that add forgotten charm to your own heirloom garden and serve up good food. The book will be available for purchase through BBG’s online shop. 

    Ellen Ecker Ogden is an award-winning kitchen garden designer who lives in Vermont. She is the author of The Complete Kitchen Garden, The Vermont Cheese Book, The Vermont Country Store Cookbook, and The New Heirloom Garden. Her articles and kitchen garden designs have been featured in the New York Times, The Boston Globe, Martha Stewart Living, Garden Design, Better Homes and Gardens and Eating Well, among others. Her lectures teach kitchen garden design for cooks who love to garden, sharing tips on what to grow for flavor and charm. $10 for BBG members, $12 for nonmembers.

  • Sunday, April 19, 11:00 am – 4:30 pm – Kitchen Garden Design – CANCELLED

    In this April 19 two-part Tower Hill Botanic Garden workshop with Ellen Ecker Ogden, author of The Complete Kitchen Garden, you will learn the six steps for successful kitchen garden design that combine art with productivity. The morning lecture, The Art of Growing Food, is a photo presentation and talk, and the afternoon session is a hands-on workshop.

    Lecture only: $15 Member; $20 Non-Member

    Lecture and Workshop: $45 Member; $55 Non-Member

    The Art of Growing Food, Sunday, April 19, 11AM-12:30PM

    A true kitchen garden opens your senses in new and inspiring ways, both in the garden and in the kitchen. You’ll start dinner by simmering onions on the stove, then dash to garden to see what you can harvest. It might be tiny artichokes, fresh peas, purple basil tips, tiny rainbow chard or spoon shaped mache, harvested in bare feet and brought into the kitchen in a lovely basket.

    In this lecture, The Art of Growing Food, you will take home new ideas for designing your kitchen garden to be more productive and more beautiful—combining art with practical technique and design. Best of all, you garden will be easier to maintain.

    In this one hour presentation, you’ll revel in the colorful photos from my book, and take a journey to visit many of my favorite kitchen garden designs, that will leave you with fresh ideas for your own.

    Ideal for gardeners just starting out and experienced gardeners who are planning to take the next step in their garden odyssey.  Participants will learn new ways to design, select the best plants, and how to include arbors, fences and practical paths that add personalized touches to bring style and whimsy.

    Lunch – 1 hour. Bring your own or eat at the cafe

    Workshop: Kitchen Garden Design The above lecture is a prerequisite, and taught as part of the full day program. Sunday, April 19, 1:30-4:30PM

    With graph paper, pencils and photos of your own kitchen gardens, participants brainstorm ways to integrate a garden into the rest of their home landscape and to design the kitchen garden of their dreams. Basic organic gardening techniques are covered: from building healthy soil, selecting seeds and how to read a seed catalog to getting the right garden tools.  Adding personality to the garden with trellises, benches and garden arts is also key. Lots of individual attention and sharing among participants. Everyone will leave with a plan, a list of plants and a vision for their new kitchen garden. Space in the workshop is limited, so sign up early!

  • Wednesday, October 18, 11:00 am – 12:00 noon – Herbs, Greens and Edible Flowers

    Ellen Ecker Ogden, author of The Complete Kitchen Garden, will speak on Wednesday, October 18 at 11 am at Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston on the topic of Herbs, Greens and Edible Flowers. Discover the wide world of flavor packed and nutrient rich herbs, greens and edible flowers, while learning the six steps to successful kitchen garden design. Create a tapestry of color and flavor with favorite European heirlooms such as mache, wild arugula, chicories and endives, plus the best culinary herbs for gardeners who love to cook. You’ll learn what to sow for a continuous harvest of healthy herbs all summer long and into the fall, that should be in every cook’s garden. Co-sponsored with the New England Unit of the Herb Society of America. Free with admission to the garden, but registration recommended at https://towerhillbg.thankyou4caring.org/pages/event-registration-form—herbs-greens-and-edible-flowers

    Garden Speaker Ellen Ecker Ogden is an award-winning food and garden writer and kitchen garden designer who is known for her informative and fun loving garden talks. Her kitchen garden designs combine artistic elements with classic garden design techniques that elevate a backyard vegetable garden into a European inspired kitchen garden.

  • Thursday, August 20, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – The Art of Growing Food

    The Art of Growing Food presentation at Elm Bank on Thursday, August 20 from 7 – 8:30 will inspire you to elevate an ordinary vegetable garden to an extraordinary European inspired potager. Discover new techniques to grow food in elegant and artful ways. With gorgeous color photographs from her book, The Complete Kitchen Garden, Ellen will share six steps to easily creating a beautiful kitchen garden.

    This lecture is ideal for new and experienced gardeners or anyone interested in innovative ideas and classic design. The ultimate goal is to learn new ways to design and plant a kitchen garden for productivity, low maintenance and pure pleasure, turning work into play!

    Ellen Ecker Ogden is the author of five books, including her most recent, The Complete Kitchen Garden, and co-founder of The Cook’s Garden seed catalog. She writes many articles regularly featured in Garden Design, Eating Well, Organic Gardening, Country Gardens, The Boston Globe, The New York Times and Martha Stewart Living to name a few. She is also maintains an active website and blog. For more information about Ellen and her work, visit her website here: http://www.ellenogden.com.

    Sign up here today to reserve your space! http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07ebal4dcu014e540b&llr=kzaorjcab  Mass Hort Members $15, Non-Members $20.

  • Saturday, May 2, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – A Day with Ellen Ecker Ogden

    Ellen Ecker Ogden, author of The Complete Kitchen Garden, is a co-founder of The Cook’s Garden seed catalog.  Ellen writes about food and gardens for The New York Times, Martha Stewart Living, and The Boston Globe.  Make the ordinary garden extraordinary by hearing her at Tower Hill Botanic Garden on Saturday, May 2.  The day begins with her lecture The Art of Growing Food from 10 – 11:30 am.  ($15 for THBG members, $25 for nonmembers.) Then, join her for a brown bag lunch from 11:30 – 12:30, limited to afternoon workshop participants only.  Pre-registration is necessary.  From 1:00 – 4:00, she will lead a Hands-on Workshop in Garden Design (THBG members $35, nonmembers $50.)  Starting with an overview of your yard, Ellen will help you develop a five-year plant.  Pre-requisite is the 10 – 11:30 lecture The Art of Growing Food.  Register online at http://www.towerhillbg.org, or call 508-869-6111.