In My Cottage Garden: Dohnn Wood at the Anchorage Garden Club
Well, it is truly spring in Anchorage and even the flowers are undaunted by the snow. This was a picture taken at UAA yesterday. As the melt continues, the flowers have already pushed their way to the surface under the snow and even have blooms! As promised, today’s post is all Dohnn Wood and container vegetables. I apologize for the video. The meeting is at Pioneer Schoolhouse, which is as old as the name suggests. They turned the lights off to better see the slide show so I had to decide which to focus on, the speaker or the show….
In My Cottage Garden: Personal Scale Urban Farming
By Linda Kellen Biegel The ABG Conference session where I received the most personal motivation was on “Urban Farming” and was run by Dohnn Wood. It was motivating because his journey was similar to mine: from he and his family discovering that fresh, Alaska grown produce actually has taste and intoxicating aroma unlike the shipped-in variety to year by year, trying to improve their vegetable gardening and increase their yield. However, his story today is one all home “farmers” would like to achieve: in 2011 he was able to harvest over 1500 lbs of food from his 5000 sq ft…