The guest speaker for the Orcas Island Garden Club meeting is Debby Hatch. The meeting is on Nov. 14, 10 a.m. in the Madrona Room of Orcas Center.

Hatch is a master gardener who has grown a four-season vegetable garden on Lopez for the past 20 years.

In the beginning, her kitchen garden was a hayfield, part of the ten acres she and her husband Scott bought in the middle of Lopez Island. Today it is a collection of vegetable, berry and fruit tree beds.

From 2006-2011, Hatch wrote the monthly Green Living column for the Islands’ Weekly. She has given workshops for the WSU Master Gardeners, the Lopez Garden Club and others. She currently writes the blog Lopez Island Kitchen Gardens: http://lopezislandkitchengardens.wordpress.com/

Hatch will help Garden Club members plan and harvest their own year-round vegetable gardens. Your garden can provide food in every season and become more beautiful each year.

Go to www.orcasislandgardenclub.org for more information.