Learning How to Garden at the FAIR

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MOTHER EARTH NEWS readers, contributors and sustainability advocates gathered together for the MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR in Puyallup, Wa., on June 2 and 3. One main topic of presentations and discussions? Gardening, of course. 

Ira Wallace, of Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, presented on gardening techniques and recommended varieties for starting and keeping a fall garden. She covered the various season extending methods that can help your Brussels sprouts, carrots and frost-tolerant greens last through several hard freezes and months of winter weather. Wallace also gave the rapt crowd lists of her favorite varieties of the most common crops in fall gardens, tailored for the Northwest gardener.


Contributing editor and garden writer Barbara Pleasant gave several presentations, including the one shown here on how to get started as a beginning gardener. Pleasant gave advice from her decades of gardening experience on which crops, and even which varieties of those crops, are best for folks who are just getting started with a garden. Disease-resistant squash, short season pear and cherry tomatoes, and cut-and-come-again greens were among the many crops recommended.

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