Name: 🌱 Design A Food Garden With JD Van Allen
Start: 2026-02-07T13:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-02-07T14:30:00-05:00
Location: Cline House Gallery and Studio

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🍎Learn how to design and build a beautiful low-budget food garden which will produce food for years to come.
Join Transition Cornwall+ on Saturday, February 7, 1:00-2:30pm at Cline House Gallery for a special presentation by JD Van Allen, author and Lead Designer with Eden's Refuge.
FREE event. Everyone is welcome. Refreshments will be available.
🌿What to expect from the presentation:
During his presentation, JD will be giving advice on how to get the best out of your garden design and give tips for how to maximize beauty and keep costs low.
Specific topics will include:
🍇How to let nature do the work for you - designing a mini ecosystem for your yard by using simple patterns
🌶️Plant options for beauty and production
🌽Tips for planting on a budget
🌼A few tips for maximizing beauty
🍂A note on large properties (short illustration showing the same patterns repeated on a large scale)
About JD Van Allen:
JD Van Allen is the Lead Designer of Eden’s Refuge, an organization working to help property owners create beautiful, well-planned edible landscapes and community orchards to produce abundant food with minimal upkeep. By working with nature, not against it, JD creates spaces that are both productive and inviting; where fruit trees, berry bushes, and perennial plants flourish with less effort. He has experience working with individuals, community groups, and larger producers, and can easily adapt his design principles to gardens of all sizes.
For those looking for more direction, JD will be selling signed copies of his book, Before The Design: Essential steps before beginning any project, immediately following the presentation.