Edible Landscaping And Herbs

The Town and Country Garden Club of Newtown will sponsor a program entitled “Edible Landscaping and Herbs” on Wednesday, February 11, at 7:30 pm. The program will be in the Multi-Purpose Building (in the senior center), on Riverside Road in Sandy Hook.

Guest speaker will be Bill Duesing, from Old Solar Farm in Oxford.

For over 30 years, organic farmer, author and environmental artist Bill Duesing has been working to promote organic agriculture and greater local food sufficiency in Connecticut and the Northeast through lectures, writings, media and community work.

Mr Duesing is currently the coordinator of organic education and advocacy for the Connecticut Chapter of Northeast Organic Farming Association (CT NOFA); president and coordinator of NOFA Interstate Council, a director and secretary of the board of the Connecticut Farmland Trust, and a director of Oxford Land Trust.

From 1990 to 2000, Mr Duesing wrote and delivered a weekly radio commentary, “Living on the Earth” on WSHU, public radio in Fairfield. A collection of these essays, Living on the Earth; Eclectic Essays for a Sustainable and Joyful Future, was published by LongRiver Press in 1993.

Mr Duesing also wrote the column “The Organic Way” for Healthy Living magazine and feature articles for plain magazine. From 1996 to 1997, he created and co-produced the monthly radio program “The Politics of Food” for WPKN, community radio in Bridgeport.

For over two decades he was also involved in creating innovative, hands-on, educational farm and garden programs in Bridgeport and New Haven public schools.

Mr Duesing owns and operates Old Solar Farm in Oxford, growing organic vegetables and poultry. He has a BA in fine art from Yale University and studied chemistry at South Connecticut State University.

Mr Duesing’s program is free and open to the public. For anyone who needs to think about something else besides snow blowing and wants to be reminded that Spring is just around the corner… the garden club extends an open invitation.