Installation of our 5,000 square foot Modern Homestead display at the San Francisco Garden & Flower Show is well under way. We couldn't be more excited to bring together such a talented group of up-and-coming and established garden enthusiasts for Star Apple's tasty showcase!
Get ready to feast your eyes next week on our interpretation of the show's Life in a California Garden theme -- complete with a:
-JAM ORCHARD lined with trees from Menlo Growers and Trees of Antiquity and jamming demo with Inna Jam
-BEE FRIENDLY GARDEN staring Randy Sue Collin's Hex Hive and great pollinating plants from LA Nurseries,
Monterey Bay Nursery and Native Revival
-TEA GARDEN spiced with robust plants, ready for steeping from Sunset Magazine's Test Garden team led by Johanna Silver
-HERB GARDEN peppered with aromatic, culinary and medicinal annuals and perennials from Cottage Gardens and Devil Mountain Nursery surrounded by beautiful stone walls created by Magic Gardens
-MAKE YOUR COMPOST with stylish favas
-POTATO TOWERS created by Johanna Silver
-EDIBLE MEADOW and Heirloom Fruit Trees with grasses, flowers and edibles from Baia Niccia, and Kassenhoff Growers
- MODERN POTAGER, OR EUROPEAN KITCHEN GARDEN with gorgeous vegetables and herbs from Sweetwater Nursery, Rocket Farms and Blue House Farm
-DINING IN THE GARDEN view a beautifully sustainable table with floral designs styled by the creative women of Studio Choo and eco-friendly furniture designers BA Design Lab
-CHICKEN COOP designed and beautifully built by Modern Cabana and filled with egg-laying chickens from Grow Your Lunch
-WE LOVE ACID GARDEN featuring our acid loving friends from Ploughshares
-SEED DISPLAY by Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
-SUNSET TEST GARDEN led by Johanna Silver and Sunset Magazine's Test Garden Team
-RAINWATER CATCHMENT made simple for your home by Urban Farmer
-BOOK AND MAGAZINE DISPLAY with Edible East Bay, Farm Together Now, and Anne Hamersky Photography
Also, don't miss our show seminars!
- Wednesday, March 23rd 1:00 - 2:00
Chef Stage -- Sequoia Hall
Stef talks with Head Chef from Berkeley's Gather restaurant about growing and cooking with their favorite edibles.
- Sunday, March 27th 2:30 - 3:30
Seminar Stage -- Meeting Pavilion
Leslie and Stef discuss The Aesthetic Edible Frontyard.
Especially the special seminars happening in our own Modern Homestead speaker seminar area!
- Wednesday, Mar 4 P.M. Ben Eichorn, Grow Your Lunch
- Thursday 2 PM. Anne Hamersky,principle photographer for Farm Together Now : A portrait of people, places and ideas for a new food movement. We want to change the way the food system works! Farm Together Now meets with people across the country who are challenging the conventions of industrialized farming and exclusive green economies.
Farm Together Now talk and book signing (book is By Amy Franceschini & Daniel Tucker, with a foreword by Mark Bittman. Photography by Anne Hamersky Photography
- Thursday: 4 P.M. Barbara Finninn, Executive Director of City Slicker Farms
- Friday 11 A.M. Bob Klein -- owner of Oliveto Restaurant and founder of Community Grains. Community Grains encourages and facilitates the development of local grains that are healthy and delicious while working to rebuild the local grain economy.
- Friday 3 P.M. Fred Hemple, Baia Niccia. Growing Gourmet Tomatoes in Containers and Small Spaces
- Saturday 3 P.M. Dafna Kory, Inna Jam. Strawberry jam and preserved meyer lemons -- small approachA discussion, demonstration and tasting of strawberry jam and preserved meyer lemons.
For the complete show seminar schedule, click here.
Thanks also to:
Institute of Urban Homesteading
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