Kitchen Gardeners International: Mark your calendars: kitchen gardener global meetups!

As well as encouraging kitchen gardening at a local level, KGI would like to foster the connecting of kitchen gardeners worldwide, not just through the KGI community website but also in person. To this end we would like to endorse Kitchen Garden Day events run by members where both local and international kitchen gardeners are welcome to come and share what a region has to offer and learn about what makes their gardens and food local.

All travelling KGI members would be welcome to any of these events. The gatherings in South West France (2009) and South Australia (2010) plan to be inexpensive and based around food gardening, markets, local specialties and a lot of fun just getting together, covering a day or two either side of KGI Day.

Unlike the French and Australian gatherings which will coincide with Kitchen Garden Day (4th Sunday of August) in their respective years, the Maine event in 2011 is scheduled for September 17th and 18th in order to give participants an opportunity to attend the Common Ground Fair, the US largest organic agricultural fair which takes place each year in Unity, Maine in late September.

So here are the dates and destinations you can pencil into your long-range diaries:

22-23 August 2009: South West France
21-22 August 2010: In and around Adelaide Australia
17-18 September 2011: Maine, USA

To be perfectly clear, we're not talking about organizing huge international "kitchen garden Olympics" with large carbon footprints to bring the world's gardeners together in one spot. Rather, we're letting you know in the event that you are considering travel to these locations already or have dreamed about it and would like to plan your travel in order to meet up with like-minded people from other parts of the world.

We will be providing more details about these events as we have them. In the meanwhile, you can be in touch with the local organizers directly via the KGI community site: .

France 2009: Ian
Australia 2010: Kate
Maine 2011: Roger and Maya

Posted by KGI on April 26, 2008 10:17 AM to Kitchen Gardeners International
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