Producer Panel #2 - The Organic Life

3507 Sunny Glen Place,Columbus OH 43224

22 June, 2021

Description

Join us for our second Slow Food Producer Panel. Go beyond the produce label and explore what it means to embrace an organic lifestyle. There's the certified organic label and there's the organic way of life. Join us in the garden for our next Producer Panel - The Organic Life. Sunny Glen Garden, located in North Linden, is an educational demonstration garden for the community to learn how to turn urban lawns into beautiful organic permaculture food gardens and wildlife habitats that support people and the planet with minimal input or resources. Our host, Master Gardener and Pollinator Specialization Advocate is Dianne Kadonaga. Dianne embraces the organic lifestyle from growing her own food without the use of pesticides or herbicides, to collecting neighborhood leaves for mulch, to perpetuating the art of origami in the recycled newspaper pots she uses for the native plants she sells; plants sourced in Ohio and grown in her backyard. Dianne has been featured on 10TV for Xero Waste Families and Sustainable Living and in the Columbus Dispatch for Reuse & Recycling: New Lifestyle Habits Can Cut Out Some Waste, and won the City of Columbus GreenSpotLight Award in the small business category from Mayor Ginther for demonstrating exemplary eco-friendly and sustainable business practices. The evening will begin with light garden refreshments. Then, Dianne will lead us through her 1,000 square foot backyard garden that includes a variety of herbs, mushrooms, vegetables, locally sourced native plants, and an edible perennial food forest in addition to a compost set-up and small plant nursery. Dianne's journey began about 5 years ago, out of necessity, and much of her education has been gained through observation, and hands in the soil. Questions are welcome and encouraged during the tour! At the end of the event, each attendee can take home one native plant that supports our local pollinators and birds to begin their own journey into the organic lifestyle. Other plants will be available for purchase. Due to space limitations, attendance is limited to 20 guests. At Dianne's request, because this event is held at her home and we may be in close proximity, masks are required for all in attendance for the duration of the event. Your support of the health of our host, her family and Slow Food Columbus guests is much appreciated. Slow Food Columbus seeks to create dramatic and lasting change toward a more sustainable food system. We work to promote foods grown, produced, and prepared here in Central Ohio, advocate for fair pricing in our food supply, and seek to bring our community together with events that are simply fun. Slow Food Columbus is the local chapter of an international food movement guided by the principle of “good, clean, and fair food for all.” We are a volunteer-run nonprofit that relies on membership to support our initiatives.