Wednesday, Jan. 18 at 10 a.m. at Orcas Center
By Sue Lewis
Debby Hatch in her Lopez Four-Season Garden
Your garden can provide food in every season and become more beautiful each year. The guest speaker for the Orcas Island Garden Club meeting on January 18 will be Debby Hatch. Debby is a master gardener who has grown a four-season vegetable garden on Lopez for the past twenty years.
In the beginning, her kitchen garden was a hayfield, part of the ten acres she and her husband Scott bought in the middle of Lopez Island. Today it is a collection of vegetable, berry and fruit tree beds. From 2006-2011, Debby wrote the monthly “Green Living” column for the Islands’ Weekly. She has given workshops for the WSU Master Gardeners, the Lopez Garden Club and others. She currently writes the blog Lopez Island Kitchen Gardens at lopezislandkitchengardens.
Debby will help Garden Club members plan and harvest their own year-round vegetable gardens. The meeting will be held on January 18 at 10 a.m. in the Madrona Room of Orcas Center.
Go to www.orcasislandgardenclub.orgfor further information.
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