Join Wild Ones Midcoast Maine for another fun garden tour, this time with permaculture teacher Joan Herzog on Sunday, June 28, between 11 AM and 3 PM. Learn how to enhance your vegetable garden yields and fruit crops with the beauty and function of native plants and pollinators—it’s a win-win for people and wildlife!
Location: 3 Lions Lane in Camden, located 1/2 block from the middle school off of Knowlton Street.
Joan Herzog grows the most produce possible (with the least effort!) in raised beds. Learn from Joan how to implement companion planting, native plants, and permaculture techniques to addressing challenges like drought, jumping worms, and pests without the use of pesticides. Her beds are 6 years old and ever changing, and are full of insects and birds in joyful harmony.
Joan teaches permaculture through Five Town Community Education. She also invites preschools, summer camps, scout troops and neighboring schools to learn through fun planting and harvesting activities. Planting pea teepees, making seed snails, digging potatoes, and eating berries and beans straight from the gardens with children are her favorite activities. She invites the community to harvest the beds she plants for them along her Lions Lane property. It’s a great way to build community!
Check out this article from a fellow Wild Ones chapter on 5 Reasons Why Edible Gardens Need Native Plants!