January 22 @ 7pm Zoom: Niki Jabbour, “Veggie Garden Remix”

Join us in welcoming Niki Jabbour all the way from Halifax, Nova Scotia into our homes via ZOOM!

Niki’s presentation will be on Veggie Garden Remix: 238 New Plants to Shake Up Your Garden and Add Variety, Flavour, and Fun.

With her lively “Like this? Then try this!” approach, Niki encourages you to expand your repertoire to try awesome global, heirloom, and unusual veggies. She presents detailed growing information for each plant, along with fun facts and plant history. Be prepared to have your mind expanded and catch Jabbour’s contagious enthusiasm for experimentation and fun in the garden.

For those of you who don’t know Niki, she is an award-winning author of four books – The Year Round Vegetable Gardener (2012 American Horticultural Society Book Award), Groundbreaking Food Gardens: 73 Plans That Will Change the Way You Grow Your Garden, Veggie Garden Remix: 224 New Plants to Shake Up Your Garden and Add Variety, Flavor, and Fun (Winner of the 2019 American Horticultural Society Book Award, Winner of the Gold Book Award from GardenComm, and winner of the 2019 Silver Award from Taste Canada), and Growing Under Cover: Techniques for a More Productive, Weather-Resistant, Pest-Free Vegetable Garden. She also writes for magazines like Fine Gardening, Horticulture, and Birds & Blooms. 

When she’s not writing, speaking, or broadcasting about food gardening Niki is harvesting year-round from her thirty raised bed vegetable garden in Halifax, Nova Scotia which is filled with an eclectic mixture of popular vegetables like tomatoes, cucumbers, and beans, as well as unique heirloom varieties, and crops from around the world like cucamelons, snake gourds, and za’atar.