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Oklahoma garden designer Linda Vater loves to create elegant edible gardens. Her work is inspired by the tradition of the potager garden.

We talk about:

• Potager gardens
• Making ornamental and elegant edible gardens
• Design elements such as enclosure
• How to design your own potager-style garden

Linda's new book is The Elegant & Edible Garden.

In the second part of the show we catch up with Sunday Harrison from Green Thumbs Growing Kids in Toronto. We're big fans of this non-profit that brings gardening to school kids and communities in downtown neighbourhoods.

We find out more about their model, which solves a common challenge of school gardens: Summer.   

We talk about: 

• Why working with a cluster of schools helps with summer care 
• Summer community involvement
• A project that gets kids growing trees from seed

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