Following our Square Foot Gardening webinar this spring, Plant Powered Metro New York will stream live from a backyard garden in Queens, learning along with urban farmer James Kaechele, an ISA Board Certified Master Arborist. It may surprise you how much food can grow in a small space! We’ll gather tips and wisdom from James about connecting with the plants that heal us through our own gardening experiences.

James Kaechele has been connecting people with plants for more than a decade. James’s formative years were spent hiking and camping throughout the hardwood forest of New England which led to four years of university study at SUNY ESF in Syracuse, NY. In the following years James taught children about vegetable gardening, taught Green industry professionals about plant pests and diseases, and planted street trees as part of the MillionTrees NYC initiative.

Since 2013 James has dedicated his professional life to fostering unlikely partnerships to care for New York City’s urban forest, helping unite business and community leaders with urban foresters to realize fully greened streetscapes.

James also teaches plant identification courses at the New York Botanical Garden and spends his vacation planting fruit trees around the world with the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation. Between all this, he has a carefully curated collection of plants in his tiny backyard in northwest Queens.

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