Five Town CSD Adult & Community Education

Learn to grow and harvest edible, native plants that provide essential ecological benefits. Instructor David Spahr shares examples from his own years of farming experience and from the educational public, edible landscape he installed across from the town hall in Washington, Maine, in 2014, where wild bees support the pollination and are supported in turn by the many wild local natives including peaches, serviceberries, American plum, beach plum, American chestnut, shagbark hickory, highbush blueberries, raspberries, black raspberries, huckleberries, thimbleberries, strawberries, cranberries,raisin Viburnums, Sedum purpureum, violets, peppermint, garlic, day lily, Rosa rugosa, chives, rhubarb, Jerusalem artichoke and others.