Public Events

One-of-a kind programs and hands-on experiences with plants, including seed-starting, plant potting, plant-based product-making, and plant giveaways. Free opportunities to experience the benefits of the people-plant connection.

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Family Farmacy

10:30am12:00pm

Food is medicine! Spanning across the Greenhouse Education Center’s learning garden, greenhouse, and kitchen, families are invited to learn the art of gardening, herbalism, and kitchen-skills to support healthy and happy bodies, minds, and hearts. Each week families will be welcomed into this drop-in program to craft their own home remedies, meals, and garden-inspired artworks.

Art in the Garden

5:00pm6:00pm

Cultivate creativity, curiosity, & settle into the restorative power of artmaking in the greenhouse and garden. Combine the art and science of observation in weekly artmaking inspired by plants in the greenhouse and garden. Learn meditative and mindful drawing, printmaking and sculptural techniques, scientific observation with plant portraiture, and new practices from botanical and ecologically-focused Art in the Garden

Grow Your Own Microgreens at 61st Open Street

2:00pm4:00pm

Join us at 61st Open Street on Sunday, 6/22/2025 from 2pm-4pm for summer plant-focused programming. This event is free and open to all. No registration required. As all events are outdoors they are subject to cancellation based on weather, permitting, and logistics.

Sauté Sizzle Savor

11:00am12:00pm

Crafting Storied Recipes with Community Supported Agriculture Each week, be guided by a guest food-worker, chef, artist, farmer, or culture-bearer who will help us unpack our CSA box and lead us in making a collectively-crafted meal. Deepen your relationship with the crops that regional farmers are harvesting while in conversations that help us reimagine our Sauté Sizzle Savor

Recipes and Rituals for Community Care

5:30pm6:30pm

We heal together in our kitchens, gardens, and shared spaces. What does it mean to heal in community? What does it feel like when we extend care to ourselves and the collective? How do plants and our local ecologies care for us? How can we care for the plants and local ecologies in return? Weave Recipes and Rituals for Community Care

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The Greenhouse and Education Center is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., seven days a week (Sunday – Saturday) all year.