| May 7, 2011 |
The theme is “Who’s Your Mama!?” a playful celebration of the next day’s holiday — Mother’s Day.
Please join us for a fun Mother’s Day plant and gift sale including fresh flowers, plants, fruit and vegetables, beautiful bird houses, decorated vases filled with colorful bouquets and a Garden Fresh Bake Sale. The movie “Secret Garden” will be playing for kids with popcorn for sale!
We are also hosting a guest speaker. Amy Pennington is a food enthusiast and creator/owner of GOGO Green Garden, an edible gardening business that builds, plants and tends edible gardens for city folk in their backyards. In 2009 Amy launched UrbanGardenShare.org, a garden website that pairs city gardeners with unused garden space via an online matching program.
Amy has been featured on Martha Stewart Living Radio an in national and international publications including Sunsetmagazine and the Toronto Star. She is a regular contributing writer to Edible Seattle, a bimonthly food-focused magazine highlighting the culinary bounty of the Puget Sound region, and a guest contributor on the weekly radio program In the kitchen with Tom and Thierry. Amy is local and lives in Seattle.Amy has written two books: Urban Pantry and Apartment Gardening.
She is generously donating all proceeds to our Greenhouse!
She will be speaking and signing books from 2-3pm at our Plant Sale.
