“Growing Food in the City”

The edible exhibition for the 2012 San Francisco Flower & Garden Show is called Growing Food in the City.  Stretching the length of the vendor hall, the themed exhibit will be an oasis amongst the hustle and bustle, reminding us how important productive garden and park space is within the city.  Returning to the show for the third consecutive year, local edible landscape designers, Star Apple Edible & Fine Gardening, curate an inspired series of urban parklets; each one an interpretation of the various types of productive landscapes that can be created in cities: school gardens, urban farms, residential edible landscapes and restaurant gardens.

Star Apple’s version of a school garden will highlight the creative ways in which important lessons can be integrated into a school garden classroom. The urban farms demonstration will show urban dwellers how to make real the vision of committing themselves to locally grown food. Residential landscapes designed by Star Apple and Sunset Magazine will provide innovative ideas for beautiful edible and ornamental plantings, no matter how small your garden space! And, finally, our chef-inspired garden, commissioned in honor of Greens Restaurant and Wendy Johnson of Green Gulch Farm, will feature fruit, herbs and vegetables that especially inspire the palates of local chefs!

Star Apple is very excited to be partnering with some stellar organizations in this year’s exhibit! Sunset Magazine, Baia Nicchia Farm, Grow Your Lunch, Love Apple Farm, Devil Mountain Nursery, Morningsun Herb Farm, Succulent Gardens, Four Winds Growers, Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, The Living Seed Company, Wingman Coops and REvive will be joining us, helping to highlight inventive approaches for the urban dweller ready to be an active part of his local foodshed.

Star Apple Edible + Fine Garedening is an edible landscaping service that installs and maintains aesthetically-designed organic kitchen gardens and larger edible landscapes for homes, schools and businesses around the San Francisco Bay Area. Star Apple can be found online at www.StarAppleEdibleGardens.com--- the site includes a portfolio of Star Apple’s work as well as further information about the company.