Photo by Ali Kaukas

The Art of Growing Food.

Ellen Ecker Ogden teaches workshops and garden design classes  based on her new book,The Complete Kitchen Garden.

How to Design a Kitchen Garden:

A kitchen garden goes beyond the simple straight rows of a vegetable garden to combine art and food in ways that enhance the experience of growing food. In this workshop, Ellen Ecker Ogden, co-founder of The Cook’s Garden seed catalog and author of the new book The Complete Kitchen Garden will share her journey from basic back yard to elegant European inspired kitchen garden designs.

In this workshop, participants will learn a foundation of skills that will allow them to create a unique design to match their own landscape, or renovate their current garden to make it more inviting. Through a series of photographs and color illustrations, participants will be inspired to re-think how to plant and design the vegetable patch, with an eye towards formal design, color, texture and culinary purpose.

In this two-part workshop, participants will learn:

Part One: Photo slide show and lecture. Gardeners can always learn from other gardeners, and in presentation I share ideas for turning an ordinary vegetable garden into an extraordinary kitchen garden, featuring original designs from my book. Approx. 1 hour.

Part Two: Hands-on workshop. With graph paper, pencils and photos or your kitchen garden, we’ll take a closer look and brainstorm ways to turn it into a productive and beautiful edible landscape.  Approx. 3 hours.

For Fees and Availability, please contact: Ellen@ellenogden.com or call 802. 362. 3931

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—-a few quotes from attendees

” Ellen is so knowledgeable – a very nice speaker.”

” Wonderful presentation. I will come again next year.”

” Great slides and passionate speaker.”

” Nice to have a vegetable gardener as a guest speaker.”

” A new approach to gardening and seeing the garden through the eyes of the artist.”

” How exciting taking in all the beautiful photos and looking at food as a work of art.”

“Excellent speaker, lots of information, I want to go home and get started!”