In his debut book Eat Your Garden, garden designer Harry Holding makes the case for edimentals – plants that are both edible and ornamental – and for a way of gardening that refuses to separate food from beauty. In this talk, he shares the thinking behind the book: what edimentals are, where they already thrive in gardens and regenerative food systems, and how to design with them using an ecological, layered approach to planting.
Drawing on his RHS Chelsea Flower Show gardens and other inspirational projects, Harry shows how beautiful, productive, low-input landscapes can work at every scale, from a windowsill to the public realm. The talk closes closer to home, with the Bronx River Foodway and Nathan Hunter-Bowman, the New York community project that concludes the book and shows how food can be a generous gateway to nature and to bringing people together.
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Zoom details will be emailed to registered participants on November 17, 2026.
Harry designs landscapes of atmosphere and abundance: rich, layered places that feel like heightened versions of the natural world. He grew up in a family of horticulturists, trained with designers, contractors and nurseries across the UK and Australia, and founded Harry Holding Studio in London in 2016.
He is recognised among House & Garden’s Top 25 Garden & Landscape Designers and Spear’s Best Landscape Designers, with multiple gardens at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show: the People’s Choice Award in 2023, a Feature Garden in 2024, and a 2026 commission with the Eden Project. Alongside teaching at the London College of Garden Design at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, he is the author of Eat Your Garden (Chelsea Green, May 2026) and one of ten designers selected for the British Library’s landmark publication Gardens of the Future.
Nathan Hunter (He/They) is a Bronx-based environmental educator and land steward with 15 years of experience growing food and teaching in outdoor education. He currently works as the Foodway Coordinator with the NYC Dept. of Parks and Recreation managing the Bronx River Foodway, a native food forest inside Concrete Plant Park. He also organizes the NYC Food Forest Coalition, a collective of self-identifying Food Forest stewards, growers, and educators across NYC and Long Island. Through his work he explores how native plants, fungi, soil microbes, and people can work together to create resilient ecosystems that offer food sovereignty, reduce stormwater impacts, and combat climate change.
Tuesday, November 17, 2026
6:00 pm – 7:15 pm
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