Lehigh Acres Edible Gardening Exchange’s January 19 speaker on seed saving will be Ben Pino from Heartland Gardens. Pino’s background is in Florida exclusive organic gardening with a focus on permaculture and bio-intensive gardening techniques.

Heartland Gardens is a local non-traditional community garden and garden center, and not-for-profit organization. Heartland is on a mission educate the public on the benefits of local, organic food and to give them the tools to obtain nutritional wellness and self-sustainability through the creation of food producing gardens.

The meeting starts at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, January 19 at the Veterans Park Recreational Center on Homestead Rd.

A once-in-a-lifetime membership fee to Veterans Park of $10 per person is required. There is no fee for the Lehigh Acres Edible Gardening Exchange; however, you are asked to share something at the meeting. If you wish an item to be raffled or donated to the pantry garden, please tell them when you sign in.