Have your landscape and eat it too! One of the biggest landscape trends currently is the incorporation of edibles into the landscape. These multi-purpose landscapes unite aesthetics and function. Come join us learn about how to design and maintain beautiful, functional edible landscapes. Learn from the experts what fruits are best for edible landscapes and tips for their incorporation, showy vegetables for food and beauty, designing a food friendly and functional landscape, insect pests of ornamentals and their impact on edible plants, and permaculture basics for the home landscape and garden.
Registration
Preregistration required as space is limited; the cost is $75/$68 per person for three or more registrations from the same company (10% discount), lunch is on your own.
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Agenda
| 8:30 AM | Attendee Check-In |
| 9:00 AM | Edible Landscaping with Fruit Sonia Schloemann, UMass Extension Small Fruit Specialist |
| 10:00 AM | Break |
| 10:15 AM | Designing an Edible Landscape with Form and Function Mandy Bayer, Extension Assistant Professor, Sustainable Landscape Horticulture, UMass Amherst |
| 11:15 AM | Insect Pests of Edible, Ornamental Trees and Shrubs Tawny Simisky, UMass Extension Entomologist |
| 12:15 PM | Lunch (on your own). |
| 1:15 PM | Vegetable Garden Success Russ Norton, Cape Cod Cooperative Extension |
| 2:15 PM | Using Permaculture Design for your Garden and Landscape Lisa DePiano, Lecturer in Sustainable Agriculture, UMass Amherst |
| 3:30 | Credits & Adjourn |
Pesticide and Professional Credits
1 contact hour for category 36 and Applicator's License have been approved, valid for equivalent categories in all New England states. 1 MCH credit has been approved, MCLP credits have been requested.
