Food Garden Life Show: Helping You Harvest More from Your Edible Garden, Vegetable Garden, and Edible Landscaping

Stop and smell the roses? Community event helps people to stop and smell…apples.Susan Poizner recently helped 50 Torontonians to stop and smell…apples. Poizner, a fruit-tree-care educator and college instructor with a passion for growing fruit trees, organized a virtual apple-tasting event as a fundraiser for her local community orchard.Virtual Apple-Tasting EventPoizner visited an orchard specializing in heirloom apple varieties to get enough apples for 50 participants.Participants received a paper bag containing the six apple varieties for the tasting. Each was marked with coloured stickers for identification.To help participants think about what they were tasting, the event was facilitated by an apple sommelier, a researcher specializing in taste perception. Poizner explains that researchers testing new apple varieties for consumer acceptance might consider upwards of 50 things. For this event, participants were asked to share feedback on four things: overall apple intensity, honey, floral, green-herbaceous.Apple VarietiesThe tasting event took attendees to different parts of the world with six heirloom apple varieties.

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Stop and smell the roses? Community event helps people to stop and smell…apples.

Susan Poizner recently helped 50 Torontonians to stop and smell…apples. Poizner, a fruit-tree-care educator and college instructor with a passion for growing fruit trees, organized a virtual apple-tasting event as a fundraiser for her local community orchard.

Virtual Apple-Tasting Event
Poizner visited an orchard specializing in heirloom apple varieties to get enough apples for 50 participants.

Participants received a paper bag containing the six apple varieties for the tasting. Each was marked with coloured stickers for identification.

To help participants think about what they were tasting, the event was facilitated by an apple sommelier, a researcher specializing in taste perception. 

Poizner explains that researchers testing new apple varieties for consumer acceptance might consider upwards of 50 things. For this event, participants were asked to share feedback on four things: overall apple intensity, honey, floral, green-herbaceous.

Apple Varieties
The tasting event took attendees to different parts of the world with six heirloom apple varieties.

 
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What is Food Garden Life Show: Helping You Harvest More from Your Edible Garden, Vegetable Garden, and Edible Landscaping?

Want to grow your own food but need creative ideas so you can get the most from your space and your growing zone? Our passion is the edible garden.

We help people grow food on balconies, in backyards, and beyond—whether it’s edible landscaping, a vegetable garden, container gardens, or a home orchard.

There are many ways to approach edible landscaping. Find out how to harvest enough fruit, vegetables, herbs, and edible flowers. Get top tips for exotic crops. And learn how to garden in a way that suits any situation.

Host Steven Biggs was recognized by Garden Making magazine as one of the “green gang” making a difference in Canadian horticulture. His home-garden experiments span driveway straw-bale gardens, a rooftop kitchen garden, fruit plantings, and an edible-themed front yard. He's a horticulturist, award-winning broadcaster and author, and former horticulture instructor with George Brown and Durham Colleges in Ontario, Canada.

Get started with one of our fan favourites. Season 6, Episode 10: Big Harvests from a Small Space with a Vertical Vegetable Garden.