Willi Galloway
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Overview
Portland, OregonWilli Galloway is an award winning radio commentator on Seattle's NPR station KUOW and the author of Grow Cook Eat: A Food-Lovers Guide to Vegetable Gardening, including 50 Recipes, Plus Harvesting & Storage. She lives and gardens in Portland, Oregon
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Description
Willi Galloway is an award winning radio commentator, writer, and author of the book Grow Cook Eat: A Food-Lover's Guide to Vegetable Gardening, Including 50 Recipes, Plus Harvesting & Storage Tips (available in February 2012).
Willi began her career at Organic Gardening magazine, where she worked her way up from editorial intern to West Coast Editor. She moved to Seattle in 2003 and became an active participant in the urban agriculture movement, earning her Master Gardener certification in 2004 and serving for six years on the board of directors of Seattle Tilth—a nationally recognized nonprofit that teaches people to cultivate a healthy urban environment and community by growing organic food. This work introduced her to hundreds of other urban gardeners, and like many of them, she has grown food in untraditional places, including on the roof of an apartment building, at the Interbay P-Patch (an acclaimed community garden right in the middle of Seattle), and in the sunny front yard of her home.
Willi writes about kitchen gardening and seasonal cooking on her popular blog, DigginFood.com, and pens the weekly column “The Gardener” on Apartment Therapy’s Re-Nest blog. Each Tuesday morning, she offers vegetable gardening advice on Seattle’s popular NPR call-in show, Greendays. She also teaches a joint gardening and cooking class with James Beard Award–nominated chef Matthew Dillon at the Corson Building in Seattle, and hosts an online garden-to-table cooking show, Grow. Cook. Eat., with her husband, Jon. Their garden has been featured in Sunset magazine. Willi currently lives and gardens in Portland, Oregon, with her four chickens, Inky, Clyde, Bumble, and Boo Boo, and her lab, Domino.
Topics
Grow. Cook. Eat: Gourmet Vegetable Gardening
Did you know that you can eat radish pods? Or pea shoots? Or arugula blossoms? Well you can! Gardeners have an opportunity to harvest and eat tons of “delicious extras” and this photo-filled lecture is designed to help you explore the diverse range of food in your garden. Many crops can be eaten at more than one stage of growth or have several edible parts, including fruit, roots, leaves, flower buds, and seed pods. You’ll learn how to harvest crops like garlic scapes and green coriander, discover delicious and beautiful vegetable varieties, and learn strategies for growing the highest quality food.
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. The presentation showcases three fantastic real life vegetable gardens and is full of fun---and attainable---design ideas.
Some Like It Hot: How to Grow Warm Season Crops in Cooler Climates
Heat loving vegetable, including tomatoes, peppers, squash, and eggplants, can be a challenge in climates with short growing seasons or cool summers. This hands-on workshop details strategies for successfully growing warm season favorites in less-than favorable conditions. You'll discover game changing season extension products and learn how to warm-up soil quickly in spring and build a simple hoop house. The workshop ends with a step-by-plan for maximizing the harvest of warm season crops.
Succession Planting 101: Getting the Most Food from Your Garden
Even small vegetable gardens can produce a remarkable amount and variety of food. All it takes is a little planning! Planting food in intervals through out the season—a practice known as succession planting—allows you to keep your garden full and productive from spring through fall (and even into winter!). In this workshop Willi will cover basic succession planting strategies, walk you through a 3 season succession planting plan, and give you ideas for simplifying and streamlining the process. She’ll also detail how to use and make season extension devices, including DIY cloches, a hoop house, and a tomato tent, and share a list of varieties that perform well in cool spring and fall weather and hot summer weather.
Locations
Pacific Northwest
Portland, Oregon
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Audience Reviews
Inspiring Perennial Favorite!
Marcia from Portland, Oregon - 04/23/2012 13:48:34
Willi offers a wealth of knowledge in engaging, inspiring presentations that appeal to both beginning and advanced gardeners. She has become a perennial favorite for our Master Gardener Speaker Series and always packs the house. As soon as her presentations end, audience members are clamoring for her return. Her talks are highly informative, delivered with delight and passion and augmented with beautiful visuals.
Willi’s ‘Grow. Cook. Eat.’ presentation enlightened even the most experienced gardeners and left the audience enthusiastically planning their edible landscapes and realizing the possibility for delicious meals rooted in home-grown goodness.
Following practical tips gleaned from Willi’s ‘Some Like it Hot’ presentation long time Master Gardeners, a few months later, experienced bountiful harvests of eggplant, peppers, and tomatoes despite a ‘beyond the norm’ cool Pacific NW summer.
Our audiences’ embrace Willi’s warm, gracious, encouraging presence and her knowledge and realistic, do-able practices leave everyone eager to GROW!
2012 Master Gardener Spring Symposium Speaker
Carol Barany from Yakima, Washington - 03/16/2012 16:18:47
Fabulous! Organized, well-prepared, visually elegant presentation on her new book 'Grow, Cook, Eat'. Audience of 130 was given an evaluation to fill out, all indicated that their expectations were well-met or exceeded. Passionate, engaging speaker who appeals to novices and experienced gardeners alike. I have attended her workshops on the Do-It-Yourself stage of the Northwest Flower and Garden show in 2011 and 2012, and her presentations were very, very well-received.
Willi's lecture
Greg Graves from Graham, WA - 03/15/2012 21:15:03
I have been planning lectures for NHS for 12 years and Willi Galloway is aas good as they get. She had a full house and everyone found it informative and entertaining. Willi brought in a number of people who were not our members because of the topic. I would highly recommend her.
