John Forti: The Heirloom Gardener

This year the Belfast Free Library in collaboration with the Belfast Garden Club will offer an evening lecture on Tuesday March 4th at 6:30 pm with John Forti.
The program will take place in the Abbott Room and on Zoom. John Forti will join us on Zoom and we will set up for an audience in the Abbott Room.

Register for the Zoom link here.

John Forti’s 2021 book, The Heirloom Gardener: Traditional Plants and Skills for the Modern World, made a plea for returning to gardening practices that support, rather than undermine, the ecology of a place. His talk will take up many of the topics he explores in his book, including the craft of gardening and how it connects us—not only to the earth, but to our fellow earthlings.
John Forti is an award-winning heirloom specialist, garden historian, ethnobotanist, garden writer, and local foods advocate. He is executive director of Bedrock Gardens, an artist-inspired
public sculpture garden and landscape in Lee, New Hampshire, and the recipient of a national 2020 Award of Excellence from National Garden Clubs. He is also a regional governor and
biodiversity specialist for Slow Food USA, a national chapter of Slow Food, a global organization and international grassroots movement that connects food producers and consumers to champion local agriculture, farmers markets, and traditional, regional cuisine. John lives and gardens along the banks of the Piscataqua River in Maine.