The Greenhouse Education Center

Cultivate creativity, curiosity, & settle into the restorative power of artmaking in the greenhouse and garden.JUNE 8 CLASS CANCELLED. Due to the NYC Air Quality Health Advisory, the Greenhouse Education Center is closed today Thursday June 8th and all scheduled programs are cancelled. 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, ... Art in the Garden

a reading room nestled in the cozy nook of a greenhouse stocked with books & activities curated around themes in therapeutic horticulture.Nestle into one of the books, zines, storytelling games, artmaking prompts, tarot and oracle decks, or other self-guided activities we’ve curated each week to explore topics in eco-literacy, community care, gardening, and all things horticulture as you sit surrounded by plants and seedlings in a sunny, plant-filled nook in our working greenhouse. “Each one ... Seeding Our Stories: Greenhouse Reading Room

We grow our gardens! 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 and have informal time in the garden to weed, water, and tend to the plants. Alternate between ... Family Gardening: Seed to Table

a reading room nestled in the cozy nook of a greenhouse stocked with books & activities curated around themes in therapeutic horticulture.Nestle into one of the books, zines, storytelling games, artmaking prompts, tarot and oracle decks, or other self-guided activities we’ve curated each week to explore topics in eco-literacy, community care, gardening, and all things horticulture as you sit surrounded by plants and seedlings in a sunny, plant-filled nook in our working greenhouse. “Each one ... Seeding Our Stories: Greenhouse Reading Room

Share the food stories close to your heart and home while pouring over cookbooks in community What’s cookin’ in community? Come around our shared table to peruse, create, share, and choose new recipes surrounded by a curated collection of cookbooks with a diversity of recipes and food stories across kitchens—from locally-foraged to passed down in the diaspora. Artfully arrange your recipe to bring back to your own kitchen and share the stories that infuse these ... Cookbook Club

Crafting Storied Recipes with Community Supported AgricultureEach week, be guided by a guest food-worker, chef, artist, farmer, or culture-bearer who 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 relationships to food and farms. In Community in the Kitchen, we invite participants to come together in the Greenhouse Education Center around ... Community in the Kitchen

Our remedies are in our kitchens.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 in rituals and recipes into your own self-care and community care practices through weekly explorations in herbal arts, somatic movement in the greenhouse and garden, ... Recipes and Rituals for Community Care

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 contemporary artists to create works of art to celebrate the plants and flowers you feel most connected to. Immerse yourself in ... Art in the Garden

What are the food stories that most urgently need to be shared?“Another thing we lost is culture. . . look at the word agriculture. We lost that connection. And so now it’s going back to the culture of agriculture. Why do we grow the food that we do?” - Karen Washington Why do we grow the foods we do? How is culture tied to our local foodways and agricultural systems? What stories of nourishment are ... Art and AgriCulture

a reading room nestled in the cozy nook of a greenhouse stocked with books & activities curated around themes in therapeutic horticulture.Nestle into one of the books, zines, storytelling games, artmaking prompts, tarot and oracle decks, or other self-guided activities we’ve curated each week to explore topics in eco-literacy, community care, gardening, and all things horticulture as you sit surrounded by plants and seedlings in a sunny, plant-filled nook in our working greenhouse. “Each one ... Seeding Our Stories: Greenhouse Reading Room

We grow our gardens! 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 and have informal time in the garden to weed, water, and tend to the plants. Alternate between ... Family Gardening: Seed to Table

We grow our gardens! 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 and have informal time in the garden to weed, water, and tend to the plants. Alternate between ... Family Gardening: Seed to Table