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Herb Festival, Spring Plant Sale, and Tomatomania®
March 17 and 18
9:00 am – 5:00 pm

We are happy to announce that Rosalind Creasy will be our honored guest at this year’s Herb Festival.

Rosalind is a garden and food writer, photographer, and landscape designer with a passion for beautiful vegetables and ecologically sensitive gardening. She began her career in horticulture in the 1970s as a landscape designer and restaurant consultant. By 1982 she had published her first book, The Complete Book of Edible Landscaping, which won the Garden Writers Association’s Quill and Trowel award, was chosen as a Book of the Month selection, and hailed by The Wall Street Journal as the best garden book of 1982. Considered a classic, it coined the term “Edible Landscaping,” now a part of the American vocabulary. Her latest book is a complete update of The Complete Book of Edible Landscaping, now called Edible Landscaping (2010). Recently, Rosalind was awarded a 2011 American Horticulture Society Book Award for Edible Landscaping. She resides in Northern California.
www.rosalindcreasy.com

Today, Rosalind continues to share her knowledge of gardening and cooking. She will give a presentation for us at 1 pm both days:

Edible Landscaping – The New American Garden
One of today’s gardening buzzwords is sustainable. You’d be hard put to find a more sustainable landscape style than an organically grown edible garden. Rosalind Creasy, pioneer in the field of edible landscaping, will give a mouth-watering slide presentation. Among the topics she will cover are an A to Z of her recommended beautiful edible plants for home gardens, an overview of the wide variety of edible landscapes, as well as the principles of landscape design particular to edibles.

In addition to Rosalind’s presentation, there will be on-going speakers on garden and herb-related topics, guided tours of the Herb Garden, Herb Festival Market-place, the A-Z on Herbs information booth, and the SDBG Spring Plant Sale with a multitude of vendors.

Back by popular demand is Tomatomania® with lectures on culture and care and plenty of tomato seedlings.

For Kids: Everything’s Coming up Roses
In honor of the 2012 Herb of the Year, the Rose, kids will learn how roses are used in cooking, perfume and for nutrition. They will make a rose-inspired bracelet, rose petal potpourri dream pouches, or wild Irish paper rose in honor of St. Patrick’s Day.

Saturday only, 10:30 am – 12 noon. Small fee to pay for materials.

For details on speakers, vendors, coupons and more, check back as we get closer to the event.

Cost: Free with admission or membership

Tomatomania® In the Eucalyptus Grove	You're never too young to start enjoying tomatoes!	The Tomatomania crew will be ready to answer all your tomato-related questions!

check back for 2012 vendors list