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Wednesday, April 1, 7:00 PM
Main Program Room
Suburban Homesteading with Alan Gorkin
Suburban Homesteading is the illustrated story of horticulturalist Alan Gorkin's wish to have a small, diversified farm that could provide extra income and food. After buying a house in Wilton with sun, lots of lawn and little water Gorkin decided to reduce his carbon footprint and experiment with different sustainable gardening techniques that reduced the lawn and fuel use
while bringing diversity and additional income to the property.
Alan Gorkin is the Horticulturist on a private 14 acre estate in Greenwich, Ct where he oversees the maintenance of two orchards, poultry flock , vegetable, greenhouse and flower gardens and honeybee hives. A graduate of Michigan State University, Alan has worked at several public gardens over the last 33 years, including Old Westbury Gardens (LI) , Brooklyn Botanic Garden and Wave Hill in NYC. He is currently an instructor in the New York Botanical Garden adult education program, Greenwich Garden Education Center and Greenwich Community Gardens.
This program is co-sponsored by RACE (Ridgefield Action Committee for the Environment) and The Garden of Ideas. Please register.
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Here's the Library schedule for the holiday weekend:
Thursday, April 2, 1:00 PM
