Ways to Celebrate Gardening

v Try “edible landscaping” by incorporating attractive edibles such as blueberry bushes, decorative cabbages, and dwarf fruit trees into ornamental beds.

v Start an herb garden indoors

v Plant a fruit tree or berries s to provide your family with nutritious, healthy fruit.

v Have a “slow food” lunch featuring locally grown, seasonal produce and regional cheese and meat specialties.

v Plant or purchase from the farmers market extra vegetables for freezing, canning or storing.

v Buy local honey and support a beekeeper or start keeping bees yourself!

v Organize a drive to collect excess garden produce from neighbors and donate them to your local food pantry.

v Seek our and purchase locally grown foods.

v Grow a salad garden with a child.