Picnic Tour for June: Mary-Ellen’s permaculture garden and Boyers Orchard & Greenhouse

When

06/25/23    
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Event Type

Let’s get together and celebrate the gifts of our gardens and efforts! This is our first Picnic Tour event for 2023. Build and expand your own Alaskan fresh-from-the-garden recipe trove! This is a garden tour sharing garden wisdom and a potluck sharing our garden dishes and the recipe. Please bring a dish made from your garden (at least 2 garden ingredients) and the recipe on a 3×5. How many ways can we use our produce? Prepare to have your senses delighted! And have fun visiting!

Picnic Table spread in orchard. Magenta apple blossomsThank you, Mary-Ellen Garner for sharing your productive permaculture garden and Boyers Orchard & Greenhouse with us for the Picnic Tour. The address is 645 E 81st near Diamond and Old Seward. Mary-Ellen is a exemplary grower. If you have never been to Boyer’s it’s amazing cornucopia, over 100 trees, with a myriad of fruits: Apples, Crabapples, Pears, Plums, Cherries, Quince, more, and fruiting bushes.

If you don’t have time to prepare a dish to share don’t stay home; please bring a freshly picked flower bouquet, wildflowers, weeds, vegetable leaves. have fun and let your creativity flow!

Also, please bring your own plate, cup, utensils, napkin, and chair or picnic blanket.

Contact: Elisabeth Holmgren, 907-274-4242

More info: https://alaskaorchard.org/our-fruits/