Volume 2, Issue 3
Hypha Free Nursery: Gifts from Strangers
an exhibit by Lark Preyapongpisan and Shannon Welles

The Hypha Free Nursery is a local collaborative project to spread plants and ideas. Plants are propagated and given away as gifts. Hypha incorporates artmaking, storytelling, and ethnobotany to provide cultural context and connection to the plants that comprise our landscape. Select plants are accompanied by a handmade letterpress card and are mapped to illustrate the potential of such networks.

This exhibition showcases artwork produced in 2014 by Shannon Welles and Lark Preyapongpisan to accompany the plants given away and the map of the first year of networking. The opening event (from 5 to 7 pm on Thursday, March 12) will include gifts of art, seeds, plants, and mushrooms.

Tenth Annual Garden Lovers' Book Sale April 3 & 4 

The tenth annual Elisabeth C. Miller Library Garden Lovers’ Book Sale happens the first weekend in April. Mark your calendars and come join the fun! The festivities begin on Friday, April 3, with a Wine and Cheese Preview Party from 5 to 8 p.m. Tickets are $25, there’s a silent auction of especially interesting books, and you’ll find plenty of appetizers. The following day, Saturday, April 4, the book sale runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. It’s free and open to the public, and all sales benefit the Miller Library.

The success of this fundraising event depends on donations of your new or gently used horticulture, garden design, urban agriculture and ecology books. Drop off books Monday through Saturday at the Miller Library. To purchase party tickets or for more information about making a book donation, contact Martha Ferguson or call the Library at 206-543-0415.

The Tao of Vegetable Gardening by Carol Deppe
Reviewed by Brian Thompson, Curator of Horticultural Literature

Carol Deppe is a witty and engaging writer based in western Oregon. Her third book on vegetable gardening, The Tao of Vegetable Gardening, is particularly valuable if you are growing tomatoes in our maritime climate, hoping to maximize your output of salad greens, or passionate about seed saving. Infused throughout are her philosophies on life and gardening, and you can read about the amazing adventures of Garden Woman, while learning some great weeding techniques, too!

New to the Library February 2015