711: Holiday Gardening Gifts

711: Holiday Gardening Gifts.

A Garden Chat with Greg, Janis and Doreen.

On the last Tuesday every month we host The Urban Farm Garden Chats where Greg Peterson has a relaxed conversation in a Zoom room with a special guest to cover useful gardening topics, and they answer questions from the live listening audience.  To join us for the next event, go to www.GardenChat.org or
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In This Garden Chat:

The holidays are just around the corner, and we all love to share gifts from our heart with our friends and family. Join us as we share our ideas for some cool gardening gifts both from and for the garden. This is sure to be an inspiration filled class. Our team members Janis Norton and Doreen Pollack joined Greg in this fabulous brainstorming session. 

 

CHAT HIGHLIGHTS:

We brainstormed a variety of gift options.

– Organic Compost  
– Fresh or dried herbs from your garden
– Dehydrated Herbs – see blog post here
– Herb combinations and seasoning mixes
– Garden products with an accompanying recipe
– Jams and Jellies – always a favorite
– Herb plants or other transplants
– Herb salts like Rosemary or Oregano, best with rock or sea salt
– Infused sugars like lavender or vanilla, with recipes like lavender lemonade or vanilla coffee
– Herbal vinegars – include an expiration date of 2-3 months if using fresh herbs
– Vinegar based cleaning products
– Pesto – think outside the box: Basil, Cilantro, Kale, and more
– Silicon trays
– Herb butters with recipe cards
– Grain Bundle from GASU
– Seed collections 
– Garden baskets with seeds and tools
– Gift certificates to Seed Up or other gardening sites
– Bouquets of flowers from aromatic herbs
– Bags of fresh citrus
– Candied citrus
– Dehydrated citrus
– Grape leaves, fresh or pickled
– Rosemary Cornbread

Editor’s Notes:

Check out our articles on Wicking Beds as this was a question in the chat tonight. Please share your recipes.  We will add them to our blog!  Send them to Podcast@urbanfarm.org

 

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