Old Orchard Beach/Saco Adult Education

A kitchen garden should be convenient, inviting, nurturing–offering relaxation as well as food! Explore plants and designs to fulfill your household needs, including fruits, vegetables, perennial edibles, and pollinator plants. Discuss ideas for location, garden size (containers or large beds), beneficial plant communities, and develop a timeline of implementation. No class 4/23.

Bring a 1-inch binder (or folder) for handouts, a notebook, pen, and your iPad/tablet, phone, or laptop (for researching plants).

Ann Murray, lifelong gardener and UMaine Cooperative Extension Master Gardener, learned landscaping and nursery work in RI and the Pacific Northwest before returning to Maine, where she enjoys finding cold-hardy perennial plant species among other plants that both feed her and serve her yard's ecosystem.