{"id":22169,"date":"2002-03-26T15:49:05","date_gmt":"2002-03-26T20:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=22169"},"modified":"2015-06-26T11:19:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T15:19:23","slug":"garden-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2002\/03\/26\/garden-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Longtime Maine grower and author discusses garden design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2002\/03\/terry-and-mark-silber.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"167\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2002\/03\/terry-and-mark-silber.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignleft\" alt=\"terry-and-mark-silber\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Longtime Maine grower and former Atlantic Monthly art director Terry Silber will talk about perennial garden design at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 2, in the Muskie Archives.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>For three decades, Silber and her husband, Mark, have owned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgehoghillfarm.com\/\">Hedgehog Hill Farm<\/a>, a commercial organic operation in Sumner, Maine. There they grow vegetables, herbs and flowers, and offer workshops on farming and gardening. They have written two books: <em>Growing Herbs and Vegetables: From Seed to Harvest<\/em> (Knopf, 1999) and <em>The Complete Book of Everlastings: Growing, Drying, and Designing With Dried Flowers<\/em> (Knopf, 1992).<\/p>\n<p>As part of a program funded by the New York-based Andrew Mellon Foundation, the Silbers are also guest faculty at Bates this semester. They are teaching <em>Working the Land: Thirty Years of Labor and Discovery on a Small Farm in Maine<\/em>, a course based on their experiences with running a commercial organic farm in Maine. Part of the interdisciplinary environmental studies program, the course emphasizes an approach to farming that is flexible, modestly scaled and respectful of the natural environment.<\/p>\n<p>The environmental studies grant is one of two the Mellon Foundation awarded to support learning-associates programs at Bates \u2014 teaching projects that bring in outside experts to enrich the curriculum with a &#8220;real-world&#8221; perspective and experience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime Maine grower and former Atlantic Monthly art director Terry Silber will talk about perennial garden design at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 2, in the Muskie Archives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[232,32],"tags":[930,1451,10760,5207],"class_list":["post-22169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment-sustainability","category-maine-and-new-england","tag-andrew-w-mellon-foundation","tag-bates-learning-associates-program","tag-environmental-studies","tag-learning-associate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91051,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22169\/revisions\/91051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}