Photo courtesy of Willi Galloway
One of the very best reasons to grow your own food is it gives you the opportunity to grow vegetable, herb and small fruit varieties that aren’t found in grocery stores. Join our April Speaker Series as garden writer, Willi Galloway presents, highlighting 30+ specific variety recommendations, including for an orange-striped salad tomato that grows on a plant with silvery leaves, a purple podded snap pea with bright green peas, and an oak-leaf shaped mustard green. Plus, learn about a fascinating array of small seed companies and breeders working to grow varieties that are regionally-adapted.
WILLI GALLOWAY is the author of Grow Cook Eat: A Food Lover’s Guide to Vegetable Gardening and the forthcoming cookbook Veggies for Breakfast: 100 Plant-Focused Recipes for Healthier Mornings (publishing in November 2025!). She is an award-winning radio commentator, writer, and former editor at Organic Gardening magazine. Willi writes about kitchen gardening and seasonal cooking and has taught joint gardening and cooking classes around the Pacific Northwest. She has hosted an online garden-to-table cooking show, GROW. COOK. EAT., fielded questions as the vegetable gardening expert on Seattle’s NPR station, KUOW, and written for Vegetarian Times and Apartment Therapy. Her garden has been featured in Sunset magazine, and she currently lives and gardens in Portland, Oregon.
Register HERE in advance.
Free event. All welcome.
