Edible forest gardening event is 7 p.m. tonight

Dave Sansone, director of Perennial Harvest and owner of Edible Planet Landscaping, will speak on edible forest gardening at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 10, in Fraser Hall Room 4 on the Western Washington University campus.

Edible forest gardening is a method of growing food that mimics a natural forest by interplanting fruit and nut trees, berry shrubs, vines, ground covers and vegetables. Whether you have access to a community garden, a city lot, country acreage, you can grow more food with an edible forest garden.

The workshop will include the fundamentals of edible forest gardening, site assessment, site prep, weed and lawn eradication, site design and installation.

Sansone is developing his own 14-acre edible forest garden, with more than 200 species of plants thus far. He teaches sustainable gardening seminars and wild edible and medicinal plant classes for the North Cascades Institute and has shared gardening advice and given numerous interviews through radio, newspapers and magazines.

For more information, contact Sansone at davesansone@hotmail.com or (360) 333-5051. For disability accommodations, contact the Outback Farm at as.outback@wwu.edu. More info about edible forest gardening can be found at www.terracommons.us.