This Saturday, May 23, the West Seattle Edible Garden Fair, a free event, will teach residents how to grow their own groceries.

The fair will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the South Seattle Community College landscape horticulture buildings, with five rooms of interactive workshops, gardening demonstrations, and “ask the expert” panel discussions to teach you how to grow your own groceries right outside your door.

But if you don't have a yard, no problem. Don't be discouraged said Helen Shampain, a volunteer who will have a booth at the fair.

"I mentor people and help them find a way to grow food in whatever environment they have," said Shampain. "If you live in an apartment or condo you can take any container and take a certain kind of soil mix and plant kitchen herbs which make your salads, soups, stir fry (foods) taste wonderful and exotic."

While Shampain does have a garden in her Pigeon Point front yard, she also has several garden-buckets alive with cilantro, celery, chives, onions, garlic greens and mustards she will display at the fair to help demonstrate.

This groundbreaking event is sponsored by Community Harvest of Southwest Seattle with a grant from the City of Seattle Department of Neighborhoods and co-sponsored by the generous folks at South Seattle Community College Landscape Horticulture Program.