BELFAST — On Tuesday, March 18, at noon, in the Abbott Room of Belfast Free Library, the Belfast Garden Club will host garden writer, photographer, farmer, and native plants purveyor Ivonne Vasquez, who will speak about a new gardening movement that is gaining momentum. Edimental gardening, or edible ornamental planting, provides the best of both worlds. This variety of plants is both beautiful and useful as food, natural dye, and medicine, and provides for pollinators and for multi-season visual enjoyment.

Vazquez will explore plants for gardens and containers with a strong focus on native plants which will add the Edimental factor to your growing areas.

Ivonne Vazquez is passionate about native plants, herbs, pollinators, DIY, sustainability, the environment, and the outdoors. She is most often found using her skills as a small acreage diversified farmer and owner of a native plant nursery. Ivonne is a freelance writer of gardening DIY articles, an avid photographer, and a speaker whose main topics are plants, flowers, and pollinators. She owns Bas Rouge Farm near Bangor and teaches extensively in Maine.

This program is free and open to the public.