What are you gonna do when you don’t have any or very little gardening space of your own, or even a community garden plot? Fear not, for as long as you have a couple of square feet of space, you can still get dirt under your green thumbnail. Join our May Speaker Series as Glen Andresen, urban gardening expert and educator, offers tips, methods, and best practices for edible gardening in containers. Plus, ways to get more food production per square foot by growing up—and Glen writes that he means vertically, not by being more mature…
Photo courtesy of Glen Andresen
1994 to 2015, Glen Andresen was Metro’s lead natural gardening educator. The program offered presentations and information on how to have healthy yards and gardens without the use of synthetic pesticides. (He estimates that he has given well more than 500 gardening presentations since 1994.) Glen has been a Master Gardener since 1991. Glen is an avid beekeeper who keeps approximately 60 colonies of bees. Last year his city bees produced more than 3,500 pounds of honey. He teaches backyard organic beekeeping classes through Portland Community College. In 2013, Glen co-founded Bridgetown Bees, offering locally raised honeybees and locally-made wooden apiary supplies. He also is the host of the long-running hour-long edible gardening show, "The Dirtbag—A Garden Variety Show," heard the second Wednesday of each month at 11 a.m. on community radio station KBOO, at 90.7 FM in Portland. Glen is a fifth generation Oregonian. He has degrees in economics and music but still would rather play in the dirt.
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