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Seed Starting for Beginners
Growing Your Own Kitchen Garden
Wednesday February 3rd at 11:00 am
DIY stage
Join seed expert Renee Shepherd as she shares all her top tips on getting vegetable garden plants started from seed. Learn how easy it is to grow a bountiful and delicious garden from seed - it's fun, inexpensive and healthy! Renee will emphasize those varieties that are best for Northwest gardens and give you some of her favorite recipes too.
Speaker
Renee Shepherd
Owner, Renee's Garden & author, Kitchen Garden
Renee Shepherd is widely regarded as a pioneering innovator in introducing international specialty vegetables and herbs for home gardeners and gourmet restaurants. After receiving her Ph.D. from the UC Santa Cruz and teaching in the Environmental Studies department there, she founded Shepherd's Garden Seed in 1985 and ran it until 1996. In 1997 she founded Renee's Garden, offering her selected choices of seeds for both exciting new and time-tested heirloom varieties of gourmet vegetables, culinary herbs and fragrant and cutting flowers. Renee's Garden seeds are available directly through the company's website, and offered through garden centers and nurseries nationwide. Renee regularly writes articles and creates recipes for their monthly e-newsletter, which reaches 35,000 gardeners. She writes the copy on seed packets, chooses seed varieties, manages marketing activities, and directs and enjoys the company's large trial gardens. Renee's articles appear frequently in Sunset, Fine Cooking, Organic Gardening, The Gardener, Fine Gardening, and Country Living. She has authored two kitchen garden cookbooks, Recipes from a Kitchen Garden (Ten Speed Press, 1993) and More Recipes From a Kitchen Garden (Ten Speed Press, 1995) and is putting the finishing touches on a third cookbook. Renee lectures widely at national and regional garden shows and is a featured speaker at numerous gardening conferences. Renee is a long-term board member of the National Gardening Association and Home Garden Seed Association. Website: www.reneesgarden.com and blog: www.reneesgardenseeds.blogspot.com