Design your Own Vegetable Garden

Join the Botanic Garden on Tuesday, April 7th from 6-8pm

Topic: Design Your Own Vegetable Garden!

This is the ultimate opportunity to get a jump start on the growing season with expert advice from Matthew Ross, Executive Director of The Botanic Garden at Historic Barns Park. This class will walk you through the steps of designing your very own vegetable garden and share tools with you that can be applied in your vegetable garden for the ultimate success in growing the perfect tomato and the tastiest spinach you've ever eaten. The class concludes with a brief seed swap where you will take home some different varieties of plants to try in 2026.

Please bring pictures of your vegetable garden area, dimensions of the area, and your creative spirit

About our Instructor

Matthew Ross is the Executive Director of The Botanic Garden at Historic Barns Park. Before coming to Traverse City, he worked as the Continuing Education Director at Longwood Gardens overseeing over 200 programs in horticulture, landscape design, and floristry. Matthew has a BS and MS from Michigan State University in Horticulture Science with an emphasis in Landscape Design Construction Management and Urban Forestry respectively.

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