Senior designer Patrick Boyd recently checked out the new Edible Garden and Canopy Walk at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. He took a zillion pictures, only a few of which we can share here! His slow-food dinner group will be receiving the full report....
Edible garden designers see food plants as ornamentals, letting you harvest your home landscape. The Atlanta Botanical Garden has green walls covered with herbs, fruit orchards and vegetable beds where area chefs wander the 'aisles' picking the best-looking produce--then turn it into sumptous feasts in the demonstration kitchen. Further blurring the line between art and food, the art of Cohn-Stone glassblowers mingles with real fruit and flowers.
The Canopy Walk is a rare treat in an urban setting. Like New York's incredible popular High Line park, it gets you airborne and looking at nature--and the city--from a different angle. It just feels cooler walking up there, with the leaves rustling in the breeze and your feet swaying ever so slightly. For those of us who haven't climbed any big trees lately, it's a reminder of how much fun that was!
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