Posted June 14, 2010 by Sarah Spearman, Education Sales Coordinator
This year’s Bonfils-Stanton Lecture Series, “The Feast in the Garden: Edible Landscapes and Regional Food Traditions,” has been a great success so far with incredible speakers from all around the world, visiting speaker-lead tours through the Gardens and amazing tastings provided by Slow Food Denver.
The Gardens is particularly excited about our next speaker, Bryant Terry, an award winning eco-chef, food justice activist, and author of numerous books including his most recent, “Vegan Soul Kitchen.” And, yes, you read that right…vegan soul food. Terry’s dynamic presentation, “Redefining Soul Food: Politics and Pleasures of Food and Eating in the Black Communities,” will take place at the Gardens on Thursday, June 24. Terry will discuss…
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Posted March 23, 2009 by Matt Cole, Director of Education
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Colorado Landscape in Early Spring
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Wildflowers enliven natural landscapes.
I’ve been watching the quiet declaration of drought conditions with an eye more curious than fearful. The US drought monitor classifies the current conditions as moderate drought, or D1, which is pretty low on the scale. The gardeners around me, however, range from “not on my weather radar” indifference to head-shaking, ground-staring, “I knew this day would come” pessimism. It would make a fascinating study of human personality, I think, but also, I wonder if it reflects their gardening interest.
For me, transplanted easterner that I am, I don’t yet know what to make of it. Do I water obsessively or give up on anything the wet side of Opuntia? The gardeners whose gardens I admire most do neither–or at least, neither is their priority. Instead, they live within the landscape, the nature that underlies the urban landscape of Metro Denver. They pay attention to structures, winds, hollows, moist pockets and a sense of the biota that surrounds them. The ecology of the space does not escape them, even when they attempt to bend or defy it.
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