Garden as Community: Planting by Guild March 18, 2013

Looking for a way to get a bigger bang from your garden, be it small or large? Follow nature’s lead by combining plant into guilds -- diverse assemblages of plants growing in healthy, self-sufficient communities. WCBG Director Kristina Jones will explore the functions and interrelationships of organisms in natural plant communities, and how they can be modeled in our gardens. As her prime example, Kristina will use the Edible Ecosystem Teaching Garden at Wellesley College, where the understory communities are designed to support the needs of fruit and nut trees. Following the lecture, if the weather cooperates, join us for a late winter tour of the Edible Ecosystem teaching Garden and a spot of tea.