Beyond their beauty and bountiful flavors, edible landscapes provide socio-cultural, economical and environmental benefits within homes and communities. The food and garden movement is bringing to light the unsung role of edibles as a sustainability catalyst for green infrastructure design solutions.
On Sat., Sept. 15, join Jeanette Ankoma-Sey at Adkins Arboretum to learn how edibles can play a key role both in planning and design and as tools to restore, mitigate and improve how landscapes function to support stormwater management, soil health, and habitat creation and biodiversity.
A trained landscape designer and horticulturist who lives and works in Alexandria, Va., Ankoma-Sey specializes in plant-based landscape solutions with a particular interest in those that engage users with their surroundings: edible gardens, children’s gardens, campus design, public and urban spaces, and more. She teaches edible landscape and ecology and the environment courses within the George Washington University’s sustainable landscape design master’s program.
The program begins at 1 p.m. in the Arboretum Visitor’s Center, and coincides with the Arboretum’s Fall Native Plant Sale Weekend. The program is $15 for members, $20 for the general public. Register at www.adkinsarboretum.org or call 410.634.2847, ext. 0.
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