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  • Thursday, February 20, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Planning a Cook’s Kitchen Garden

    Do you love to cook? Wouldn’t you like to step out your door and pick the ingredients for your evening meal? Gardeners know that home-grown food tastes the best. Learn how to select the best tasting varieties for your kitchen garden and make a plan for successful harvests from spring to fall. Learn simple preservation techniques and strategies for eating from the garden all year long. On Thursday, February 20, from 7 – 8:30, vegetable grower Tim Wilcox will discuss growing techniques and how to make the most of limited space, at the gardens at Elm Bank in Wellesley.

    Tim Wilcox owns The Kitchen Garden farm in Sunderland, MA where he grows specialty vegetables for farmers markets, restaurant chefs and grocery stores throughout the Pioneer Valley. Tim started the farm in 2006 with his wife Caroline Pam and together they have grown from a 1-acre garden to a full-blown farm of 25 acres. His favorite crops are garlic, herbs, chili peppers and tomatoes, which inspire him to create amazing homegrown meals from cuisines as diverse as Italian and Thai.

    Lecture Fee $15 for Mass Hort members; $20 non-members.  Register at www.masshort.org, or call 617-933-4973.

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  • Saturday, January 21, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – In the Kitchen Garden

    You’ll already be out in the Berkshires to hear Robert Herman, so stay around on Saturday, January 21 from 1 – 3 to hear the interesting lecture In The Kitchen Garden. We all know that home-grown food tastes the best. Foodie farmers Tim Wilcox and Caroline Pam will discuss how to select the best tasting varieties for your kitchen garden. Do heirloom vegetables taste better than hybrids? What are the best sources for seeds and supplies? And how will I ever narrow down the list of things I want to plant? Learn simple preservation techniques and strategies for eating from the garden all year long.

    Tim Wilcox and Caroline Pam run The Kitchen Garden Farm (CSA) in Sunderland, MA. They both have culinary experiences in France and Italy that informs and inspires what they grow. They have both worked at the Union Square Greenmarket in New York City and are foodies, italophiles, and farm geeks. Register on-line ($22 BBG members, $27 non-members) at www.berkshirebotanical.org.  Photo by Paul Frantz.