The Greenhouse Education Center

Celebrate our garden's neighboring trees that shelter, nourish, and connect our gardens.While some of our early Spring flowering trees like Cherrry Blossom and Magnolia have come and gone, June brings its own abundance of the fragrance of flowering trees. Join us Family Farmacy to meet and breathe with some of June's most vibrant flowering trees, the linden and locust and explore the many ways these trees support our urban garden spaces. Together, we'll learn how ... Family Farmacy: Linden and Locust Love

Garlicky Sautéed Spring Greens + BeansGreens and beans are more than a meal, they are food ingredients that reflect how communities have nourished themselves with what’s available, seasonal, and shared. This workshop uses that foundation to explore health, culture, and collective care.Your Facilitator: Brandy CochraneBrandy Cochrane is a culinary educator for PPMNY, a licensed Food for Life Instructor through the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, and a chef, recipe developer, and author. She is also ... Sauté Sizzle Savor: Greens and Beans

Working with Heart Medicine of Cacao & The Cacao Tree in Mayan CosmovisionCacao, known as the medicine of the heart, will guide us through gentle ritual and reflection to soften, open, and nourish our inner world.Together, we’ll learn about the medicine of the cacao tree and the Mayan Cosmovision that honors cacao as "food for the gods" and worked with cacao as a medicine in ritual and in life. Your Facilitator: Vivian is a Crystal ... Recipes & Rituals for Community Care: Cacao Circle

"What are the practical, everyday, and lifelong ways we become kin?" - Center for Humans and Nature PressWith every breath, every sip of water, every meal, we are reminded that our lives are inseparable from the life of the world—and the cosmos—in ways both material and spiritual. What are the sources of our deepest evolutionary and planetary connections, and of our profound longing for kinship? - Humans and Nature PressJust by living as humans on ... Recipes & Rituals for Community Care: Kinning in the Garden

Work with Pressed Florals To Create a Charms to Carry Flowers as Messengers of Powerful AffirmationsFlowers have long been used to express either what feels difficult to say, and even secret messages. Join us in the garden to get your hands to making with clay, pressed florals, and your own carefully crafted affirmations to create pocket-sized charms or tailsman. Together, we'll explore the symbolism and stories carried by different blooms, reflecting on the qualities we ... Art in the Garden: Flower Affirmation Charms

Learn about Cacao and Rose, and Work with the Two Powerful Culinary Heart MedicinesLearn about the plants behind some of the most luxurious treats we can gift ourselves, cacao and rose, and deepen into the heart medicine they offer. Together, we'll create our own rose water white chocolate bark while enjoying a cup of cacao using roses from the garden and learning about the cacao tree and this tree's important cultural and ecological origins.Your Facilitator: ... Art & AgriCulture: Rose Water Chocolate Bark

Explore the connections between gardens and fibers through the living stories woven between plants, animals, and humans.Join us for a morning of fiber arts inspired by the plants, animals, and agricultural traditions that connect us to land. Together we'll explore the relationships between gardens, farms, and textiles while experimenting with wet felting techniques and need-felting with wool, papermaking with flax, and even making our own wet-felted soaps.Ever think about how the clothes you wear come ... Family Farmacy: Softness is a Super Power

Quick Pickle Your Food Using Spring's Fresh Produce!In this hands-on, plant-based workshop, participants will create their own jar of bright spring pickles inspired by global traditions such as Haitian pikliz, Vietnamese do chua, Mexican escabeche, and Middle Eastern pickled vegetables. Using fresh, seasonal produce, herbs, and simple brines, everyone will build a customized mix to take home. The session explores pickling as a way cultures around the world preserve early harvest foods and extend the ... Sauté Sizzle Savor: Spring Pickles

As we approach Summer Solstice, Nourish Your Heart with LindenJoin us at the greenhouse to deepen your relationship with the tree medicine of Linden! While many of the flowering trees of Spring come and go by May, Linden blossoms with sweet fragrant flowers sheltered by their canopy of thick green leaves, providing an important nectar source for bees and other pollinators in June. Beyond linden's resourcing for pollinators, linden is also a powerful herbal ally ... Recipes & Rituals for Community Care: Linden Love

Create Your own Botanical Prints Using the Alchemy of CyanotypeJoin us at the Greenhouse as we approach the Summer Soltice to take in the sun's powerful rays of light to create sun prints, or cyanotypes through this camera-less photographic process. Together, we'll learn the alchemy of the cyanotype process, then move to the garden where we'll select the botanicals we most wish to work with, composing our own prints and working witht the light of ... Art in the Garden: Blooming in Blue