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THE HEARTLAND HARVEST GARDEN
The Garden at a Glance
The Heartland Harvest Garden will be a delicious garden designed to satisfy all of your senses. Here's a preview of what you'll see, hear, taste and touch when the garden opens on June 14, 2009:
The Entrance Gardens
A visit begins with the Menu Garden, an "appetizer," if you will, of what lies ahead. This garden is an example of a potager garden, a kitchen garden in the French country style. Vegetables, herbs and flowers mingle in a tapestry of colors and shapes that also provide food for the table.
In the adjacent Seed to Plate Greenhouse sprouting seeds illustrate the beginning of the botanical miracle that ultimately leads to the foods on our dinner plates. Down the path, the Apple Celebration Court showcases Missouri's finest apple varieties along a spiral brick walkway. The Pear Promenade and Peach Plaza will be a delight as spring blossoms transition to delicious fruits ripening throughout the season.
Plantings in the Vineyard evoke images of the South of France and California wine country. Grapes of all types will be planted with roses as a practical and beautiful companion. With intricate iron gates, trellises and a water feature, this space also will be available for private events.
Next you can explore the latest gardening trends in the Authors' Garden, where current philosophies of top garden writers will be brought to life in a rotating exhibit.
The project’s tour de force is the Quilt Gardens. Each of these three-quarter acre plots will be planted in traditional “Old Missouri” and “Kansas Star” quilt patterns. The first “quilt” will focus on fruits and berries; another focuses on forage grasses; a third on Missouri farm crops such as corn and soybeans; and the last on vegetables. In this most intricate quadrant, you’ll find elaborately detailed plantings of vegetables, edible flowers and culinary herbs.
The Missouri barn will be an interpretive resource center, a place to rest and catch a sandwich or cold drink and peruse the satellite gift shop. The adjoining 45-foot silo becomes an overlook where you can take in a birds-eye view of the quilts below and the Missouri landscape. Alongside the barn, the Kansas City Power & Light All Electric Cooktop will provide ongoing demonstrations as well as in-depth cooking classes on the weekends.
Next up is the Fun Foods Farm, a youth education garden where children can dig in for hands-on learning about plant science, water conservation and nutrition using curriculum tied to Missouri and Kansas education standards.
By the time you reach the end of your journey, we hope you will have found the Heartland Harvest Garden a place to have fun, to be touched by beauty and to learn a lot!
For the first time, Powell Gardens will have a permanent garden space designed with kids in mind. The youth education garden will increase our capacity for school field trips and also offer discoveries and delights for the public.
The Water Conservation Court at the entrance greets visitors with an interactive exhibit that demonstrates the water cycle and emphasizes the importance of this precious resource. Young visitors can run off steam in the Tutti-Frutti Maze of edible hedges, climb on kid-friendly bug sculptures and be wowed by fun and extraordinary foods as they learn where popcorn, peanuts and licorice originate. And perhaps most importantly, the expansion includes a garden of prepared soil to sow, care for and harvest so children can learn how to reap the rewards of being stewards of the soil.
Classes designed around the “Seed to Plate” theme will allow youth to discover firsthand where their food comes from. A team of professionals has designed a signature experience that will indelibly impress children with the importance of fresh fruits and vegetables as part of a healthy lifestyle, and will help demystify the USDA's Food Guide Pyramid. How You Can Help
You can help us reach the goal by considering a naming opportunity such as a brick, bench, grape arbor or greenhouse. Questions? Contact | |
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