The Herb Lyceum’s April Speaker’s series brings delicious, twice-monthly menu offerings together with food for the mind, harkening back to the United States’ historical Lyceum

On April 12th, please join us and David Jacke, author and ecological landscape designer, for:

Gardening Like the Forest: An Introduction to Edible Forest Gardening:

Healthy forests maintain, fertilize, and renew themselves, naturally. Modern landscapes and conventional agriculture embody a culture of separation that disrupts ecosystems, destroys habitats, and ultimately damages our own well-being. Nature has much to teach us! We can mimic healthy forest structure and function in our landscapes and grow food, fuel, fiber, fodder, fertilizers, pharmaceuticals, and fun! We can meet our own needs while regenerating healthy ecosystems for ourselves, and for our human and non-human neighbors. In this talk we’ll articulate the vision, relay some science, share a few examples, and present a sampling of perennial edibles you can grow.

While this menu will be served for one night only, like many of our menus this Spring it will feature mushrooms from our friends at Fat Moon Farms in Westford, Massachusetts.