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Liven up your home and yard with help from Garden & Green Living Expo presenters
August 25, 2025 Leave a Comment
Create beautiful, productive and ecologically sound indoor and outdoor spaces at home with these University Place presentations recorded at the 2025 Garden & Green Living Expo.
Every year, Garden & Green Living Expo attendees enjoy talks from experts on new topics, as well as tried and tested subjects for Midwest growers. Topics include horticultural research and gardening tips for vegetables and native plants, to beekeeping and sustainable landscaping.
Each year at Garden & Green Living Expo, select talks are recorded and live streamed. Below are the presentations from 2025, featuring a variety of instruction and lessons given by professionals in their fields.
Indoor Gardening for Food and Fun
Victor Zaderej, chief technology officer at Happy Leaf LED, offers practical advice and easy tips and tricks on how to economically grow delicious produce indoors year-round.
Wonderful wool for your plants and your planet
Woollets owners Elaine Becker and Karen Mayhew describe how wool is a sustainable, organic soil alternative to peat. They explain how wool offers better moisture retention, synthetic amendments and nutrition than peat, all while aerating, improving soil health and repelling pests.
New and Unique Plant Varieties
Allen Pyle, a horticulture outreach specialist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension, presents award-winning plant varieties from Midwest trial gardens. Pyle highlights plants that performed well with minimal care, including drought-tolerant annuals and pollinator-friendly options for changing climate conditions.
The Art of Food Forest Design
Rachel Belida, edible landscape designer at Daily Harvest Designs, presents a permaculture approach to creating a self-sustaining seven-layer “food forest” in your backyard — a low-maintenance plan to growing fruits, nuts and vegetables in your yard, no matter how big or small.
