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SUMMARY:Sauté\, Sizzle\, Savor: Winter Cooking & Eating
DESCRIPTION:Gather around the table for collectively-crafted meals and food stories.
URL:https://parentguidenews.com/event/saute-sizzle-savor-winter-cooking-eating/2026-06-09/
LOCATION:The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park\, 679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
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SUMMARY:Soil Stories
DESCRIPTION:A self-guided cozy nook in the greenhouse with curated books\, games\, and artmaking for quiet moments to enjoy with plants.
URL:https://parentguidenews.com/event/soil-stories/2026-06-09/
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SUMMARY:Urban Garden 101 Garden Snack and Harvest
DESCRIPTION:Participants will learn how to harvest and create a snack from the garden.They will be able to make sautéed collards and take home harvest.\n\n\nIn step with the growing season\, beginner gardeners are invited to gain hands-on learning experiences at the learning garden and greenhouse. In Spring unfurling\, we’ll cover fundamental principles and practices of growing plants for specific urban green spaces\, preparing soil\, designing a garden suitable for each gardener’s specific needs\, regenerative and climate-wise gardening\, starting seeds\, proper planting techniques\, and basic plant care. Gardeners in this course will contribute to collective beds in our learning garden as well as tend seedlings to take to their own urban green spaces. \nIn this class participants will harvest lettuce\, spinach\,mint\,and root vegetbales. \nRequired Texts and Resources: No texts are required. Optional supplemental readings will be given for each class. \nRegistration: Each track is limited to 16 participants per session. We ask that you kindly register prior the start of the cohort. Urban Gardening 101 is most suited for adults\, and we kindly ask participants with children to consider one of our other weekly free family-friendly programs instead.
URL:https://parentguidenews.com/event/urban-garden-101-garden-snack-and-harvest/
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SUMMARY:Recipes & Rituals for Community Care: Soundbath Meditation & Tea Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an herbal tea ceremony\, and sound-bowl meditation.\n\n\nJoin us for a moment to slow down for a reflective evening of tea\, and sound. Grounding in our herbal tea of the evening of hibiscus\, mint\, and butterfly pea\, we’ll begin the evening learning how to welcome these plants into our bodies through a tea ceremony led by Tia. Tia will share her practice with both tea and soundbaths\, sharing how these practices can contribute to collective care for ourselves and each other. We’ll close the evening with Tia leading us into a soundbath meditation. \nTake time to exchange breath with the plants in the greenhouse\, enjoy and herbal tea to calm the body\, and rest into this guided soundbath meditation.\n\n\n\nYour Facilitator: Mattia “Tia” Colon is an Environmental Master Level Social Worker\, Soundbowl Mindfulness Meditation Facilitator and Community Gardener. She facilitates soundbowl mindfulness meditation events to diverse communities across NYC. She utilizes various singing bowls and other instruments to create sound frequencies to induce a relaxing and healing atmosphere. She will be hosting future meditation and tea ceremony events to create powerful meditative experiences.\n\n\n\n\nWhat 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?\n \nWeave 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\, folk remedies\, and other wild-crafts and meditative activities that foster a deeper connection to plants to care for the body\, mental health\, and the people you move with. \n \nEach week\, be guided by a guest herbalist\, healing artist\, or wellness practitioner who will help you create your own toolkit and apothecary for self and communal care.\n\n\n\nWorkshops are rain or shine. \nAccessibility: Our kitchen/classroom space is wheelchair accessible. With prior planning\, we can add a few small mats onto the pebbled ground of greenhouse to make a small wheel-chair accessible path. Our learning garden has grass paths\, and the entrance is through a gate with a small\, raised entrance. Our tables can be lowered/raised\, and we have several backless benches or stools. Our kitchen is in regular use\, and while we try to cook without peanuts\, much of our cookware is shared and we cannot guarantee a nut-free environment. We have a first aid kit\, and the closest AED is in another building several yards away. Drinking water is made available in refillable pitchers. \nWhen inside the greenhouse and kitchen we will open our double-doors and windows to vent the space and encourage masking and social distancing when in more closed-in spaces. \nOur closest bathrooms are a building away\, about a one-minute walk. A gender neutral bathroom is also available\, and this is accessible by key which you can request from staff. We are not a scent-free zone\, and because herbalism classes take place here\, cannot guarantee that the site will be clear of any essential oil smells. If you have needs not addressed here\, please reach out to Mallory Craig at mcraig@thehort.org.
URL:https://parentguidenews.com/event/recipes-rituals-for-community-care-soundbath-meditation-tea-ceremony-2/
LOCATION:The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park\, 679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sauté\, Sizzle\, Savor: Winter Cooking & Eating
DESCRIPTION:Gather around the table for collectively-crafted meals and food stories.
URL:https://parentguidenews.com/event/saute-sizzle-savor-winter-cooking-eating/2026-06-02/
LOCATION:The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park\, 679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
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SUMMARY:Soil Stories
DESCRIPTION:A self-guided cozy nook in the greenhouse with curated books\, games\, and artmaking for quiet moments to enjoy with plants.
URL:https://parentguidenews.com/event/soil-stories/2026-06-02/
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SUMMARY:Sauté\, Sizzle\, Savor: Winter Cooking & Eating
DESCRIPTION:Gather around the table for collectively-crafted meals and food stories.
URL:https://parentguidenews.com/event/saute-sizzle-savor-winter-cooking-eating/2026-05-26/
LOCATION:The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park\, 679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
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SUMMARY:Soil Stories
DESCRIPTION:A self-guided cozy nook in the greenhouse with curated books\, games\, and artmaking for quiet moments to enjoy with plants.
URL:https://parentguidenews.com/event/soil-stories/2026-05-26/
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SUMMARY:Art & AgriCulture: Botanical White Chocolates
DESCRIPTION:Colorful\, Spring White Chocolate Coins Filled and Embellished with Medicinal and Edible Flowers\n\n\nWhen considering garden to table meals\, have you thought about integrating edible flowers? \nIn this session\, participants will work with white chocolate and an array of medicinal plant powders such as butterfly pea\, rose\, and matcha to create white chocolate mendiants that help us sneak colorful and medicinal plants into a sweet indulgent treat. Then\, particpants will work with a variety of edible flowers to decorate and embellish their mendients\, considering how these plants bring beauty onto our plates as well as nutritional and culinary diversity! \n\n\n\nYour Facilitator: Vivian Arias \nVivian is a Crystal Therapist specializing in Personal & Spiritual Development. Her unique approach integrates mindset\, energetics\, and spirituality to provide a grounded wholistic approach to personal growth and empowerment.\nPhoto Courtesey of artist Vivian Arias. Find more about Vivian’s work at https://www.crystallinechrysalis.co/\n \n\n\n\n“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\n\n\nWhy do we grow the foods we do? How is culture tied to our local foodways and agricultural systems? What stories of nourishment are you hungry to tell? What creative acts are you being called to digest? In this weekly series\, explore various techniques and practices introduced by visiting artists who will lead us in expressing our relationship to food\, agriculture\, and the histories and stories that shape how we connect with our foodways.\nThrough various artmaking techniques like bookmaking\, printmaking\, collage\, sculpture\, natural-pigment making and painting\, alternative photography processes\, participants will create artwork that begins to answer the question: Where is the culture in our agricultural system?\n\n\nThis is a free drop-in program. Come to every class to build on your skill or come to one or two that you are available for. Explore your relationship to food and agriculture and the ways our food systems can connect us more deeply to our local ecosystems and communities.\n\n \n\n\n\nWorkshops are rain or shine. \nAccessibility: Our kitchen/classroom space is wheelchair accessible. With prior planning\, we can add a few small mats onto the pebbled ground of greenhouse to make a small wheel-chair accessible path. Our learning garden has grass paths\, and the entrance is through a gate with a small\, raised entrance. Our tables can be lowered/raised\, and we have several backless benches or stools. Our kitchen is in regular use\, and while we try to cook without peanuts\, much of our cookware is shared and we cannot guarantee a nut-free environment. We have a first aid kit\, and the closest AED is in another building several yards away. Drinking water is made available in refillable pitchers. \nWhen inside the greenhouse and kitchen we will open our double-doors and windows to vent the space and encourage masking and social distancing when in more closed-in spaces. \nOur closest bathrooms are a building away\, about a one-minute walk. A gender neutral bathroom is also available\, and this is accessible by key which you can request from staff. We are not a scent-free zone\, and because herbalism classes take place here\, cannot guarantee that the site will be clear of any essential oil smells. If you have needs not addressed here\, please reach out to Mallory Craig at mcraig@thehort.org.
URL:https://parentguidenews.com/event/art-agriculture-botanical-white-chocolates/
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SUMMARY:Art in the Garden: Botanical Illustration
DESCRIPTION:Honing in on the Art of Observation through Botanical Illustration with Colored Pencils\n\n\n“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.” – Rachel Carson  \nJoin us in the garden and greenhouse to hone your observational skills and learn to work with colored pencils to merge both science and art through the dicipline of botanical illustration. In this session\, participants will explore how the drawing of a flower can elicit an emotional response while also documenting and educating for conservation purposes the form\, function\, and biodiversity in the plants portrayed. Together\, we’ll take to the garden\, finding the plant that most calls to us\, contemplating it’s beauty and settling into the art of noticing.  \n\n\n\nYour Facilitator: Susan Kricorian\nSince I was a young girl growing up in Watertown\, MA\, drawing\, painting in response to my surroundings have always been magical acts that brought me great satisfaction.Art has been a private world where my interests in parallels that exist within the natural world and human nature\, gestural brushwork\, bright colors\, and patterns continue to be important elements in my work.I moved to NYC in 1986 and began teaching art for the DOE in 1988. In 2021 I retired from teaching full-time.Recently\, Iʼve been inspired by old family photographs taken by my father\, works by beloved artists\, construction in my neighborhood\, world events\, collective experiences during these tumultuous times. I love studying the subjectsʼ expressions\, gestures and exploring their underling temperaments\, honest evocations in relationships and bringing them to life with paint. Mystery\, curiosity and beauty remain constant forces behind my creative energy.\n\n\n\nGrounded in the garden\, join us to critically and creatively engage in a diversity of artmaking techniques that open us up to deeper dialogue on place\, our relationships to our lived environments\, ecological concerns\, and contemporary culture. Learn meditative and mindful drawing\, printmaking and sculptural techniques\, scientific observation with plant portraiture\, nature-inspired intuitive artmaking and mixed media exploration\, and other various practices from botanical and ecologically-focused contemporary artists to create works of art to nurture your relationship to the garden.\n \nImmerse yourself in the learning garden\, greenhouse\, and across Riverbank State Park’s green roof overlooking the Hudson River to create artwork that is rooted in place and in partnership with plants.\n\n\n\nWorkshops are rain or shine. \nWhen inside the greenhouse and kitchen we will open our double-doors and windows to vent the space and encourage masking and social distancing when in more closed-in spaces. \nAccessibility: Our kitchen/classroom space is wheelchair accessible. With prior planning\, we can add a few small mats onto the pebbled ground of greenhouse to make a small wheel-chair accessible path. Our learning garden has grass paths\, and the entrance is through a gate with a small\, raised entrance. Our tables can be lowered/raised\, and we have several backless benches or stools. Our kitchen is in regular use\, and while we try to cook without peanuts\, much of our cookware is shared and we cannot guarantee a nut-free environment. We have a first aid kit\, and the closest AED is in another building several yards away. Drinking water is made available in refillable pitchers. \nOur closest bathrooms are a building away\, about a one-minute walk. A gender neutral bathroom is also available\, and this is accessible by key which you can request from staff. We are not a scent-free zone\, and because herbalism classes take place here\, cannot guarantee that the site will be clear of any essential oil smells. If you have needs not addressed here\, please reach out to Mallory Craig at mcraig@thehort.org.
URL:https://parentguidenews.com/event/art-in-the-garden-botanical-illustration/
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SUMMARY:Recipes & Rituals for Community Care: Soundbath Meditation & Tea Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an herbal tea ceremony\, and sound-bowl meditation.\n\n\nJoin us for a moment to slow down for a reflective evening of tea\, and sound. Grounding in our herbal tea of the evening of hibiscus\, mint\, and butterfly pea\, we’ll begin the evening learning how to welcome these plants into our bodies through a tea ceremony led by Tia. Tia will share her practice with both tea and soundbaths\, sharing how these practices can contribute to collective care for ourselves and each other. We’ll close the evening with Tia leading us into a soundbath meditation. \nTake time to exchange breath with the plants in the greenhouse\, enjoy and herbal tea to calm the body\, and rest into this guided soundbath meditation.\n\n\n\nYour Facilitator: Mattia “Tia” Colon is an Environmental Master Level Social Worker\, Soundbowl Mindfulness Meditation Facilitator and Community Gardener. She facilitates soundbowl mindfulness meditation events to diverse communities across NYC. She utilizes various singing bowls and other instruments to create sound frequencies to induce a relaxing and healing atmosphere. She will be hosting future meditation and tea ceremony events to create powerful meditative experiences.\n\n\n\n\nWhat 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?\n \nWeave 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\, folk remedies\, and other wild-crafts and meditative activities that foster a deeper connection to plants to care for the body\, mental health\, and the people you move with. \n \nEach week\, be guided by a guest herbalist\, healing artist\, or wellness practitioner who will help you create your own toolkit and apothecary for self and communal care.\n\n\n\nWorkshops are rain or shine. \nAccessibility: Our kitchen/classroom space is wheelchair accessible. With prior planning\, we can add a few small mats onto the pebbled ground of greenhouse to make a small wheel-chair accessible path. Our learning garden has grass paths\, and the entrance is through a gate with a small\, raised entrance. Our tables can be lowered/raised\, and we have several backless benches or stools. Our kitchen is in regular use\, and while we try to cook without peanuts\, much of our cookware is shared and we cannot guarantee a nut-free environment. We have a first aid kit\, and the closest AED is in another building several yards away. Drinking water is made available in refillable pitchers. \nWhen inside the greenhouse and kitchen we will open our double-doors and windows to vent the space and encourage masking and social distancing when in more closed-in spaces. \nOur closest bathrooms are a building away\, about a one-minute walk. A gender neutral bathroom is also available\, and this is accessible by key which you can request from staff. We are not a scent-free zone\, and because herbalism classes take place here\, cannot guarantee that the site will be clear of any essential oil smells. If you have needs not addressed here\, please reach out to Mallory Craig at mcraig@thehort.org.
URL:https://parentguidenews.com/event/recipes-rituals-for-community-care-soundbath-meditation-tea-ceremony/
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LOCATION:The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park\, 679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Food
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SUMMARY:Soil Stories
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URL:https://parentguidenews.com/event/soil-stories/2026-05-19/
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SUMMARY:Urban Garden 101 Harvest Spring Crops
DESCRIPTION:Participants will learn how to harvest Spring crops.They will be able to make a communal salad and take crops home.\n\n\nIn step with the growing season\, beginner gardeners are invited to gain hands-on learning experiences at the learning garden and greenhouse. In Spring unfurling\, we’ll cover fundamental principles and practices of growing plants for specific urban green spaces\, preparing soil\, designing a garden suitable for each gardener’s specific needs\, regenerative and climate-wise gardening\, starting seeds\, proper planting techniques\, and basic plant care. Gardeners in this course will contribute to collective beds in our learning garden as well as tend seedlings to take to their own urban green spaces. \nIn this class participants will harvest lettuce\, spinach\,mint\,and root vegetbales. \nRequired Texts and Resources: No texts are required. Optional supplemental readings will be given for each class. \nRegistration: Each track is limited to 16 participants per session. We ask that you kindly register prior the start of the cohort. Urban Gardening 101 is most suited for adults\, and we kindly ask participants with children to consider one of our other weekly free family-friendly programs instead.
URL:https://parentguidenews.com/event/urban-garden-101-harvest-spring-crops/
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SUMMARY:Sauté\, Sizzle\, Savor: Winter Cooking & Eating
DESCRIPTION:Gather around the table for collectively-crafted meals and food stories.
URL:https://parentguidenews.com/event/saute-sizzle-savor-winter-cooking-eating/2026-05-12/
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SUMMARY:Soil Stories
DESCRIPTION:A self-guided cozy nook in the greenhouse with curated books\, games\, and artmaking for quiet moments to enjoy with plants.
URL:https://parentguidenews.com/event/soil-stories/2026-05-12/
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SUMMARY:Sauté\, Sizzle\, Savor: Winter Cooking & Eating
DESCRIPTION:Gather around the table for collectively-crafted meals and food stories.
URL:https://parentguidenews.com/event/saute-sizzle-savor-winter-cooking-eating/2026-05-05/
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SUMMARY:Urban Garden 101 Spring Harvest and Flower Planting
DESCRIPTION:You will learn how to harvest Spring crops.You will also plant flowers for the bouquet bed.Participants will leave with Flower knowledge.\n\n\nIn step with the growing season\, beginner gardeners are invited to gain hands-on learning experiences at the learning garden and greenhouse. In Spring unfurling\, we’ll cover fundamental principles and practices of growing plants for specific urban green spaces\, preparing soil\, designing a garden suitable for each gardener’s specific needs\, regenerative and climate-wise gardening\, starting seeds\, proper planting techniques\, and basic plant care. Gardeners in this course will contribute to collective beds in our learning garden as well as tend seedlings to take to their own urban green spaces. \n \nPrerequisite(s): There are no prerequisites. This class is open to all levels\, designed specifically for individuals who are new to gardening or have some experience but who have lacked a consistent place to grow beyond foundations. \nRequired Texts and Resources: No texts are required. Optional supplemental readings will be given for each class. \nAttendance Policy: Classes will build off eachother and follow the growing season. To assure students are getting the best experience we encourage you to come to each class.  \nRegistration: Each track is limited to 12 participants per session. We ask that you kindly register prior the start of the cohort. Urban Gardening 101 is most suited for adults\, and we kindly ask participants with children to consider one of our other weekly free family-friendly programs instead.
URL:https://parentguidenews.com/event/urban-garden-101-spring-harvest-and-flower-planting/
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SUMMARY:Art & AgriCulture: The Community Atlas
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate our learning journey in  papermaking\, and share your paper topographies\, ecosystems that tell stories of the lands that shape you.\n\n\n \nJoin us in creating a community atlas as you learn various tecniques in papermaking to create your own Ecosystems in Memory. Join us for all five\, one\, or a few of this papermaking series: \n\nSession 1: 4/2\na Trail of Seeds: Every seed carries stories of place and people. Join us in this beginning session of an ongoing series in which we will work with seeds and papermaking\, learning about how these seeds are sown and stewarded\, and how the seed is loved and used across places. Each person will choose one seed to build an ongoing relationship with throughout future sessions. Together\, we’ll learn how these seeds are sown and stewarded\, and how each seed is uniquely loved and used across the world. Guided by reflection\, you’ll select a word that resonates with both you and your seed\, then create a trail on paper to map your own connection with this seed to inspire your papermaking journey over the next few sessions together. In this session\, we’ll learn about amate paper and its rich history in Mexican culture in resisting colonization and keeping culture alive through stories and recipes. \nSession 2 and 3: 4/8 and 4/16\nEcosystems of Memory: Participants are invited to bring photos of land they relate to\, are close to\, where they migrated from or from printed images of landscapes that feel like home. Be guided by O to write your own reflection of this land\, and turn those notes into recycled paper pulp to be mixed with fibers\, dried grasses\, leaves\, and other various upcycled papers. In this session\, learn how to add natural pigments to dye the papers. \nSession 4: 4/23\nA Feflection of Ourselves: Looking at our paper topography\, we’ll reflect\, taking time to write a small letter on handmade paper to ourselves\, answering the question\, how do we make home for ourselves? We will place this at the center of our handmade paper topography\, mounting both our seed of trails and our landscapes onto amate paper\, finishing our final pieces for this Earth Day. \nSession 5: 4/30\nThe Community Atlas\, a celebration: We will lay our topographys in the greenhouse as an exhibit and invite community to come and discuss how we make home and live in an ecosystem together. Looking at photos from O’s archive\, we’ll share and connect over ways to re-member the land and how we can heal together. \n\n\nYour Facilitator: Odalys Burgoa\nO is a Mexican artist from the Bronx with a focus in photography\, storytelling and painting. They curate and facilitate workshops in green spaces.\n\n\n\n\n“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\n\nWhy do we grow the foods we do? How is culture tied to our local foodways and agricultural systems? What stories of nourishment are you hungry to tell? What creative acts are you being called to digest? In this weekly series\, explore various techniques and practices introduced by visiting artists who will lead us in expressing our relationship to food\, agriculture\, and the histories and stories that shape how we connect with our foodways.\nThrough various artmaking techniques like bookmaking\, printmaking\, collage\, sculpture\, natural-pigment making and painting\, alternative photography processes\, participants will create artwork that begins to answer the question: Where is the culture in our agricultural system?\n\nThis is a free drop-in program. Come to every class to build on your skill or come to one or two that you are available for. Explore your relationship to food and agriculture and the ways our food systems can connect us more deeply to our local ecosystems and communities.\n\n\n\nWorkshops are rain or shine. \nAccessibility: Our kitchen/classroom space is wheelchair accessible. With prior planning\, we can add a few small mats onto the pebbled ground of greenhouse to make a small wheel-chair accessible path. Our learning garden has grass paths\, and the entrance is through a gate with a small\, raised entrance. Our tables can be lowered/raised\, and we have several backless benches or stools. Our kitchen is in regular use\, and while we try to cook without peanuts\, much of our cookware is shared and we cannot guarantee a nut-free environment. We have a first aid kit\, and the closest AED is in another building several yards away. Drinking water is made available in refillable pitchers. \nWhen inside the greenhouse and kitchen we will open our double-doors and windows to vent the space and encourage masking and social distancing when in more closed-in spaces. \nOur closest bathrooms are a building away\, about a one-minute walk. A gender neutral bathroom is also available\, and this is accessible by key which you can request from staff. We are not a scent-free zone\, and because herbalism classes take place here\, cannot guarantee that the site will be clear of any essential oil smells. If you have needs not addressed here\, please reach out to Mallory Craig at mcraig@thehort.org.
URL:https://parentguidenews.com/event/art-agriculture-the-community-atlas/
LOCATION:The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park\, 679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sauté\, Sizzle\, Savor: Winter Cooking & Eating
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SUMMARY:Soil Stories
DESCRIPTION:A self-guided cozy nook in the greenhouse with curated books\, games\, and artmaking for quiet moments to enjoy with plants.
URL:https://parentguidenews.com/event/soil-stories/2026-04-28/
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SUMMARY:Art & AgriCulture: Ecosystems in Memory - Papermaking
DESCRIPTION:Learn papermaking techniques to create your own paper topographies\, little ecosystems that tell the story of the lands that shape you.\n\n\n \nJoin us in creating a community atlas as you learn various tecniques in papermaking to create your own Ecosystems in Memory. Join us for all five\, one\, or a few of this papermaking series: \n\nSession 1: 4/2\na Trail of Seeds: Every seed carries stories of place and people. Join us in this beginning session of an ongoing series in which we will work with seeds and papermaking\, learning about how these seeds are sown and stewarded\, and how the seed is loved and used across places. Each person will choose one seed to build an ongoing relationship with throughout future sessions. Together\, we’ll learn how these seeds are sown and stewarded\, and how each seed is uniquely loved and used across the world. Guided by reflection\, you’ll select a word that resonates with both you and your seed\, then create a trail on paper to map your own connection with this seed to inspire your papermaking journey over the next few sessions together. In this session\, we’ll learn about amate paper and its rich history in Mexican culture in resisting colonization and keeping culture alive through stories and recipes. \nSession 2 and 3: 4/8 and 4/16\nEcosystems of Memory: Participants are invited to bring photos of land they relate to\, are close to\, where they migrated from or from printed images of landscapes that feel like home. Be guided by O to write your own reflection of this land\, and turn those notes into recycled paper pulp to be mixed with fibers\, dried grasses\, leaves\, and other various upcycled papers. In this session\, learn how to add natural pigments to dye the papers. \nSession 4: 4/23\nA Feflection of Ourselves: Looking at our paper topography\, we’ll reflect\, taking time to write a small letter on handmade paper to ourselves\, answering the question\, how do we make home for ourselves? We will place this at the center of our handmade paper topography\, mounting both our seed of trails and our landscapes onto amate paper\, finishing our final pieces for this Earth Day. \nSession 5: 4/30\nThe Community Atlas\, a celebration: We will lay our topographys in the greenhouse as an exhibit and invite community to come and discuss how we make home and live in an ecosystem together. Looking at photos from O’s archive\, we’ll share and connect over ways to re-member the land and how we can heal together. \n\n\nYour Facilitator: Odalys Burgoa\nO is a Mexican artist from the Bronx with a focus in photography\, storytelling and painting. They curate and facilitate workshops in green spaces.\n\n\n\n\n“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\n\nWhy do we grow the foods we do? How is culture tied to our local foodways and agricultural systems? What stories of nourishment are you hungry to tell? What creative acts are you being called to digest? In this weekly series\, explore various techniques and practices introduced by visiting artists who will lead us in expressing our relationship to food\, agriculture\, and the histories and stories that shape how we connect with our foodways.\nThrough various artmaking techniques like bookmaking\, printmaking\, collage\, sculpture\, natural-pigment making and painting\, alternative photography processes\, participants will create artwork that begins to answer the question: Where is the culture in our agricultural system?\n\nThis is a free drop-in program. Come to every class to build on your skill or come to one or two that you are available for. Explore your relationship to food and agriculture and the ways our food systems can connect us more deeply to our local ecosystems and communities.\n\n\n\nWorkshops are rain or shine. \nAccessibility: Our kitchen/classroom space is wheelchair accessible. 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We are not a scent-free zone\, and because herbalism classes take place here\, cannot guarantee that the site will be clear of any essential oil smells. If you have needs not addressed here\, please reach out to Mallory Craig at mcraig@thehort.org.
URL:https://parentguidenews.com/event/art-agriculture-ecosystems-in-memory-papermaking/
LOCATION:The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park\, 679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sauté Sizzle Savor: Flowering Flatbreads
DESCRIPTION:Work with Spring Greens and Edible Flowers to Deck Out Your Very Own Flatbread!\n\n\nSpring invites creativity in the kitchen\, even when ingredients are simple and early-season. In this hands-on workshop\, participants will make their own flatbreads using fresh\, seasonal ingredients greens\, herbs\, sprouts\, edible flowers\, early vegetables\, and optional cheeses or grains with a premade dought. Together\, we’ll create edible works of art using bright colored herbs and edible flowers. \n\n\n\nYour Facilitator: Sharron Cannon\nSharron Cannon is a culinary educator and seasonal wellness facilitator who guides participants in listening to their bodies\, the land\, and the seasonal rhythms of food. With years of experience teaching plant-based cooking\, herbal infusions\, and mindful kitchen practices\, Sharron’s workshops focus on connection\, care\, and creativity in the kitchen.Her approach moves beyond recipes—she helps participants cultivate a deeper awareness of how seasonal ingredients support health\, resilience\, and community. Sharron’s teaching emphasizes hands-on experiences\, improvisation\, and the joy of working with what the land offers\, nurturing both skill and imagination in every session.\n\n\n\nIn Sauté Sizzle Savor\, we invite participants to come together in the Greenhouse Education Center around the kitchen table to share in the harvest of our weekly CSA share. In a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) model\, community members and farmers build a reciprocal and mutually-beneficial relationship—community members support farmers by sharing the risk and paying upfront so that farmers can focus on stewarding the land while farmers provide community with healthy\, organic\, and sustainably grown produce at an affordable price that goes directly into the farm’s pockets. \nIn these weekly sessions\, we invite participants to gather and build community as we share recipes\, food stories\, and helpful tips for how to cook with the plants that are in season. Each week\, participants can expect to be guided by food-workers\, culture-bearers\, chefs\, farmers\, elders\, or food-system thought visionaries who will lead us in both cooking class and critical conversation that has us consider how we share the foods we grow in community. \n\n\n\nWorkshops are rain or shine. \nAccessibility: Our kitchen/classroom space is wheelchair accessible. With prior planning\, we can add a few small mats onto the pebbled ground of greenhouse to make a small wheel-chair accessible path. Our learning garden has grass paths\, and the entrance is through a gate with a small\, raised entrance. Our tables can be lowered/raised\, and we have several backless benches or stools. Our kitchen is in regular use\, and while we try to cook without peanuts\, much of our cookware is shared and we cannot guarantee a nut-free environment. We have a first aid kit\, and the closest AED is in another building several yards away. Drinking water is made available in refillable pitchers. \nOur closest bathrooms are a building away\, about a one-minute walk. An all-gender bathroom is also available\, and this is accessible by key which you can request from staff. We are not a scent-free zone\, and because herbalism classes take place here\, cannot guarantee that the site will be clear of any essential oil smells. If you have needs not addressed here\, please reach out to programs@thehort.org \nWhen inside the greenhouse and kitchen we will open our double-doors and windows to vent the space and encourage masking and social distancing when in more closed-in spaces.
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LOCATION:The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park\, 679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sauté\, Sizzle\, Savor: Winter Cooking & Eating
DESCRIPTION:Gather around the table for collectively-crafted meals and food stories.
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SUMMARY:Soil Stories
DESCRIPTION:A self-guided cozy nook in the greenhouse with curated books\, games\, and artmaking for quiet moments to enjoy with plants.
URL:https://parentguidenews.com/event/soil-stories/2026-04-21/
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SUMMARY:Urban Garden 101 Integrated Pest Management
DESCRIPTION:You will learn how to treat and identify diseases and pests. You will take home your own 8pm spray bottle.\n\n\nIn step with the growing season\, beginner gardeners are invited to gain hands-on learning experiences at the learning garden and greenhouse. In Spring unfurling\, we’ll cover fundamental principles and practices of growing plants for specific urban green spaces\, preparing soil\, designing a garden suitable for each gardener’s specific needs\, regenerative and climate-wise gardening\, starting seeds\, proper planting techniques\, and basic plant care. Gardeners in this course will contribute to collective beds in our learning garden as well as tend seedlings to take to their own urban green spaces. \n \nPrerequisite(s): There are no prerequisites. This class is open to all levels\, designed specifically for individuals who are new to gardening or have some experience but who have lacked a consistent place to grow beyond foundations. \nRequired Texts and Resources: No texts are required. Optional supplemental readings will be given for each class. \nAttendance Policy: Classes will build off eachother and follow the growing season. To assure students are getting the best experience we encourage you to come to each class.  \nRegistration: Each track is limited to 12 participants per session. We ask that you kindly register prior the start of the cohort. Urban Gardening 101 is most suited for adults\, and we kindly ask participants with children to consider one of our other weekly free family-friendly programs instead.
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SUMMARY:Sauté\, Sizzle\, Savor: Winter Cooking & Eating
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SUMMARY:Soil Stories
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URL:https://parentguidenews.com/event/soil-stories/2026-04-14/
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