Learn the absolute basics a new gardener needs to consider when starting their first food garden!

The Silver Spring Garden Club invites you to a talk on:

FEARLESS FOOD Gardening

Fearless Food Gardening sprang out of the educational efforts of teaching hundreds of people to grow their own food via the Peterson Garden Project. Early food gardening experiences can either get you hooked for life or discourage you to the point of quitting. Fearless Food Gardening is meant to do the former. This lecture talks about the absolute basics a new gardener needs to consider when starting their first food garden (plus lots of tips for more advanced gardeners).

LaManda Joy wants to inspire everyone she meets to grow their own food... seriously. She is an author, national speaker, award-winning master gardener, and considered the “Best Urban Farmer in Chicago.” Inspired by the massive WW2 Victory Garden movement she founded the Peterson Garden Project in 2010. She has collaborated on Fearless Food Gardening in Chicagoland: A Month-by-month Guide for Beginners (2013) and Start a Community Food Garden: The Essential Handbook (2015). Bring your checkboooks as she will have a limited supply of both books on sale after her talk.

She will also be speaking at the Library of Congress on Tuesday, May 19, where she will present “How Community Gardens Can Save America.”

WHEN: Monday, May 18, 8:00pm
(Doors open at 7:30pm)

WHERE: Montgomery College TP/Silver Spring Campus
Health Sciences Center Building
Room 122

DIRECTIONS: Please walk, bike, metro, bus, or carpool. IF you drive, please park on the 3rd level of the college’s King Street parking garage. Driving direction are online at:
http://cms.montgomerycollege.edu/edu/Department.aspx?id=30047

REFRESHMENTS will be provided after the talk by the following Silver Spring Garden Club members: Mary Lou Shannon, Helen Gray, and Liisa Silverstone.

This event is FREE and open to the general public.