The Greenhouse Education Center

Botanical and Intention-filled Ornaments. Working with seedheads and grasses to craft objects of reflection.As winter settles in and the landscape shifts toward its quieter hues, join teaching artist Junell Banks for a seasonal and mindful workshop. Using seedheads, dried grasses, and clipped evergreens—materials gathered from the edges of fields, garden beds, and the lingering memory ... Art in the Garden: Gathered from the Field Ornaments

Seasonal Marks from the GardenWhy do we grow the things that we grow? Why do we use the things that we use?Join us as we remember y(our) roots while preparing for the holiday season.In this playful, plant-centered workshop, you’ll explore textile printmaking using flower petals, seedheads, and vegetables from the garden as your stamps. Come ... Art & AgriCulture: Beauty in Botany With Textile Printmaking

Be held by plants and sound.A soundbath meditation for all! Join us for a December evening of rest, reflection, tea, and sound. This community session will center around a soundbowl mindfulness meditation and a tea ceremony, inviting participants of all ages and backgrounds to slow down, breathe deeply, and allow sound vibrations to support grounding ... Recipes & Rituals for Community Care: Soundbowl Meditation and Tea Ceremony

Create winter greenery that nourishes the senses and the spiritCelebrate the quiet strength of winter by working with evergreens—plants that hold their color, scent, and structure long after the rest of the garden has gone dormant. In this session, we’ll create seasonal arrangements using cuttings sourced from felled trees and from The Hort’s evergreen plantings ... Art in the Garden: Evergreen Arrangements

Sustain your spirit this season with one home remedy at a timeCome prepare your bodies for the holiday season by making a holiday herbalism survival kit to get through the busy season. From a soothing tea blend to a fortifying oxymel take sometime to pour into yourself to make the season extra bright.Your Facilitator: Arvolyn ... Art & AgriCulture: Holiday Herbalism Survival Guide

A family celebration of mountains and meltwater.A hands-on, intergenerational journey into mountains, meltwater, and alpine plants.Mountains are the water towers of the world, holding nearly 70% of our planet’s freshwater in glaciers. As global temperatures rise, these ancient ice reserves melt faster than they should—impacting water, food, energy, and the lives of billions. This International ... Family Farmacy: Gaciers and Alpine Ecology for Intl. Day of Mountains

Reworking Menu Classics with a Plant-Forward TwistJoin us for a demo and tasting where chef-educator Brandy Cochrane leads us through a plant-based remix of familiar comfort dishes. In this workshop, we’ll remake classic mashed potatoes and onion gravy entirely plant-based, building layers of umami with slow-sizzled sweet onions, tamari depth, nutritional yeast richness, and greens ... Sauté Sizzle Savor: Classic Remix

Bark, Resin, Leaf: Composing a Botanical Scent StoryThe Scent Bowl Making Workshop is a hands-on experience designed to connect participants to the natural world through the art of blended scent creation. Using resins, wood chips, herbs, and natural materials, participants will craft their own custom bowl to take home. Each ingredient becomes a small lesson ... Recipes & Rituals for Community Care: Botanical Scent Bowls

Gather, Wrap, and Weave Your Storied JourneysStep into the garden and explore the beauty of natural materials as you craft your own Journey Stick—a colorful, textural art piece inspired by the land and your unique creative story. Participants will work with sticks, twigs, yarn, and gathered offerings from nature to build a personal visual narrative, ... Art in the Garden: Journey Sticks

Illuminating the beauty of food, fields, and seasonal abundanceCelebrate the richness of the harvest season by turning the colors, shapes, and textures of food and agriculture into luminous works of art. In Gilded Harvest, we’ll explore gold leaf in highlighting our imagery of foods and landscapes that sustain us. Whether you’re gilding a drawing of ... Art & AgriCulture: Gilded Harvest