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Edible Estates: Full Frontal Gardening

Posted in Learning Experiences on March 23 2010, by Plant Talk

Lecture Series Presents Fritz Haeg on Replacing Suburban Lawns

Replace your front lawn with a diverse edible landscape: Fritz Haeg, author of Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn, will show you how March 25, from 10 a.m. to noon, in the last installment of the Adult Education gardening lecture series From the Ground Up: Gardens Re-Imagined.

Edible Estates is Fritz’s ongoing project that converts lawns into productive landscapes. He will discuss the related social and environmental issues the project addresses, and look at the historical progression of urban land use, gardening as a form of activism and survival, and the growing interest in urban agriculture.

Get new ideas on how to shape your front lawn into a garden of eating.

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