The Greenhouse Education Center

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 HilArvolyn Hill (she/her) is a community herbalist, flower essence practitioner and outdoor educator with a never-ending curiosity about plants and ... 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 Mountain Day, join us for a joyful journey into the mountains with Family Farmacy to explorie why glaciers matter for ... 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 from the garden. Together, we’ll explore how to honor familiar flavors while transforming them into dishes that support wellness, creativity, ... 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 in botany—an invitation to notice how plants store memory in resin, root, bark, and leaf, and how those compounds shape ... 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, wrapping and assembling materials in ways that spark imagination and flow. Whether inspired by a walk through the garden, a ... 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 a winter squash, adding shine to a collage of corn husks and soil textures, or adorning a shadow box filled ... Art & AgriCulture: Gilded Harvest

Craft, gather, and celebrate the turning of the sun.A cozy, hands-on celebration of the winter solstice, honoring the longest night and the slow returning of the sun.As winter settles in, and on this day of the longest night of the year, many cultures around the world turn to candles, warm teas, and storytelling as symbols of the promise of returning light. Join us in exploring the meaning of the solstice, crafting hand-poured beeswax candles, blending ... Family Farmacy: Solstice Stories