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Andean Food Crops For Your Garden
October 12, 2014 @ 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Andean Food Crops For Your Garden
with Anders Vidstrand
part of the UC Botanical Garden’s Foods of the Americas exhibit
Sunday, October 12, 10:00AM-12:00PM
UC Berkeley Botanical Garden, 200 Centennial Drive, Berkeley
$25, pre-registration required
http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/bot.html?event_ID=79783
“Join Anders Vidstrand for a presentation on forgotten crops of the Americans. In this presentation you’ll learn about food biodiversity, forgotten origins of crops, horticulture and rare edible species. There will be a focus on easy to grow, productive perennial plants for your Bay Area garden!
Come view our colorful marketplaces filled to the brim with Foods of the Americas. From chocolate to quinoa, discover the cornucopia of food crops that originated in the Americas thousands of years ago.”