Garden conference heralds planning season.

• Author: Pounds, Nancy
• Position: ENTERTAINMENT - Conference news

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The Alaska Botanical Garden's Sixth Annual Spring Garden Conference cultivates gardeners' dreams of summertime. Gardeners in Southcentral can anticipate prolific homegrown harvests due to this winter's record snowfall. This event, entitled "Cultivating Community," will feature Alaskan garden experts presenting a variety of gardening topics, including foraging for wild edible plants, growing dahlias, beneficial insects, season extension, and growing herbs and vegetables in containers, and more.

The conference is March 9-10 at the University of Alaska Anchorage Consortium Library. Friday's program features the Alaska Botanical Garden's annual meeting and a lecture from keynote speaker Eliot Coleman. Coleman is the author of "The New Organic Grower" and "The Winter Harvest Handbook." He and his wife...