Willi Galloway

The Willi Galloway Luncheon Lecture is at the South Seattle Community College from noon to 1:00pm. It is included in the price of the ticket and box lunches will be available for purchase at the lecture for $10 each.

LECTURE TOPIC

Creating a Beautiful and Productive Kitchen Garden

Even small urban yards can be transformed into productive edible gardens! In this fun, idea-filled workshop, Willi will address strategies for growing more food in a regular city lot, including vertical gardening, succession planting, and integrating ornamentals and edibles. She will also discuss the best vegetable varieties for the Pacific Northwest and showcase fantastic ideas from real-life edible gardens in the Pacific Northwest, including two wonderful front yard gardens that look attractive year round. A special question and answer period will be held after the lecture.

BIO

As an award winning writer and radio commentator, Willi Galloway spends her days teaching people how to eat from their gardens. Willi is a longtime contributor to Organic Gardening magazine and is the creator of DigginFood, a popular gardening and cooking blog that serves up organic vegetable gardening advice, DIY projects, and seasonal recipes several times each week. Each Tuesday morning, Willi offers vegetable gardening advice (along with fellow gardeners Marty Wingate and Greg Rabourn) on the popular KUOW 94.9 call-in show, Greendays.

Willi served for six years on the Board of Directors of Seattle Tilth-a nationally recognized non-profit that teaches people to cultivate a healthy urban environment and community by growing organic food-and is a volunteer for the King County Master Gardeners. She also regularly speaks at gardening events around the country and frequently hosts workshops at major nurseries and for gardening groups in the Pacific Northwest.

This summer she is working on her first book-a food lover's guide to vegetable gardening that will be published by Octopus Books USA (a division of the Hachette Book Group) in the spring of 2011-and is teaching a joint gardening cooking class with chef Matthew Dillon at the Corson Building in Georgetown. She is also filming a pilot for an online garden to table cooking show.

After gardening for years in containers and at community gardens, Willi settled into a small West Seattle bungalow in 2005. She now grows vegetables and a growing collection of perennials with her husband, Jon, their Labrador retriever, four pet chickens, and a hive of honeybees.