John Forti, The Heirloom Gardener - Traditional Plants and Skills

1A North Road,Chelmsford MA 01824

03 May, 2022

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John Forti, The Heirloom Gardener, will speak about Traditional Plants and Skills. The Chelmsford Garden Club and the Chelmsford Center for the Arts are excited to present John Forti, The Heirloom Gardener, speaking about Traditional Plants and Skills. The popular and engaging speaker will present a program looking at our long history of heirloom preservation, garden craft and homestead lifeways that help to preserve homegrown American arts and crafts, and encourage backyard environmentalism. John Forti is a nationally recognized lecturer, garden historian, ethnobotanist and garden writer. He is Executive Director of Bedrock Gardens in Lee, N.H. Before taking on this new position, he was Director of Horticulture for the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. He served as the Curator/Director of Historic Landscapes at Strawbery Banke Museum and as Director of Horticulture at Plimoth Patuxet Museum where the gardens and seed program he created brought international attention to the preservation of Pilgrim and Wampanoag heirloom crops. He has won numerous awards for historic garden preservation, children’s garden design, herbal and historical education, and the 2021 Award of Excellence from National Garden Clubs, one of the nation’s most-recognized nonprofits and largest volunteer gardening organization in the world. The program will take place in the upstairs auditorium at the Chelmsford Center for the Arts on Tuesday, May 3, 2022, at 12:00 noon. The doors will open at 11:30. The program is free, but due to limited seating reservations are required. John Forti’s book, The Heirloom Gardener-Traditional Plants and Skills for the Modern World, will be available for purchase. The cost is $27.50 by check made out to John Forti or by cash. No credit cards.