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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/2026-10-06/
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/2026-10-06/
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SUMMARY:Gay In The Garden - Generative Conflict with plant allies  w/ Diana
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon of learning how to have difficult conversations with the help from plants. Herbalist Diana will lead us.\n\n\nJoin us for an afternoon of learning how to have difficult conversations led by herbalist Diana.
URL:https://parentguidenews.com/event/gay-in-the-garden-generative-conflict-with-plant-allies-w-diana/
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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/2026-09-29/
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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/2026-09-29/
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SUMMARY:Art in the Garden: Oral Histories: Listening to Human & More-Than-Human
DESCRIPTION:Becoming Great Listeners and Tending the Oral Histories of Our Plant Kin\n\n\nJoin plant oral historian\, Clarissa Shane and the Greenhouse community in this workshop to connect to our communities of both humans and more-than humans. We practice together how to be great listeners\, inviting each of us into the garden to tap into our senses.\nTogether\, we will use sense- and place-based methods to practice oral history\, attuning to the rhythms of the garden as a guide for deeper listening. Participants will learn sensiobiographical interviewing techniques while engaging directly with the September garden.\n\n\n\nYour Facilitator: Clarissa Shane\nClarissa Shane is an interdisciplinary creative and plant oral historian from Stockton\, CA. Her research explores how plant stories connect communities to ancestry\, land\, and healing\, including her project “Re-Rooting Orality” in Paredones\, Michoacán\, Mexico. She holds an M.A. in Oral History from Columbia University and a B.A. from Bard College Berlin\, and continues to study Ayurvedic herbalism in her free time.\n \nHeader image courtesey of Clarissa Shane: Yerba del Sapo is a plant that helped remedy a treacherous migration to the United States. \nFind more of Clarissa’s work at: https://clarissashane.sandbox.library.columbia.edu/about/ \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 \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 \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-in-the-garden-oral-histories-listening-to-human-more-than-human/
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:Recipes & Rituals for Community Care: Oral Histories & Active Listening
DESCRIPTION:Becoming Great Listeners and Tending the Oral Histories of Our Plant Kin\n\n\nJoin plant oral historian\, Clarissa Shane and the Greenhouse community in this workshop to connect to our communities of both humans and more-than humans. We practice together how to be great listeners\, inviting each of us into the garden to tap into our senses.\nTogether\, we will use sense- and place-based methods to practice oral history\, attuning to the rhythms of the garden as a guide for deeper listening. Participants will learn sensiobiographical interviewing techniques while engaging directly with the September garden.\n\n\n\nYour Facilitator: Clarissa Shane\nClarissa Shane is an interdisciplinary creative and plant oral historian from Stockton\, CA. Her research explores how plant stories connect communities to ancestry\, land\, and healing\, including her project “Re-Rooting Orality” in Paredones\, Michoacán\, Mexico. She holds an M.A. in Oral History from Columbia University and a B.A. from Bard College Berlin\, and continues to study Ayurvedic herbalism in her free time.\n \nHeader image courtesey of Clarissa Shane: Yerba del Sapo is a plant that helped remedy a treacherous migration to the United States. \nFind more of Clarissa’s work at: https://clarissashane.sandbox.library.columbia.edu/about/ \n\n\n\nWhat does it mean to heal in community? What does it feel like to extend care—to ourselves\, ecologies\, and our shared earth?\nThis weekly series explores the role of plants in supporting both personal and communal well-being through herbal arts\, folk remedies\, somatic movement\, meditative wildcrafting\, and shared ritual. Participants are guided by guest herbalists\, healing artists\, and wellness practitioners to co-create a toolkit that not only resources individuals in caring for themselves\, but stretches our imagination and capacity to care for the collective and our shared earth.\nRecipes and Rituals for Community Care is rooted in reciprocity with land\, ancestral knowledge\, and the rhythms of the seasons.\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-oral-histories-active-listening/
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/2026-09-22/
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/2026-09-22/
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SUMMARY:Urban Garden 101 - Planting Fall Crops and setting up Low Tunnels
DESCRIPTION:Participants will plant and set up low tunnels for over winterizing.\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 the beggining of Fall\, 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. Participants will also make bi-products from the herbs in the garden. \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-planting-fall-crops-and-setting-up-low-tunnels/
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SUMMARY:Gay In The Garden - Pickling 101 & Bahn Mi Sandwiches w/ Keesha
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a fun afternoon ! We'll  make our own seasoning blends 1-2 with herbs from the garden\,  and then learn how to pickle 2-3pm.\n\n\nJoin us for an afternoon ofcrafting and pickling. We will make friendship bracelets before being led by chef Keesha in how to pickle.
URL:https://parentguidenews.com/event/gay-in-the-garden-pickling-101-class/
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SUMMARY:CSA Supper Club: Eating Seasonally: Local Ecosystems & Seasonal Nutrition
DESCRIPTION:Explore the origins stories of CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture)as we unpack and taste test the foods inside.\n\n\nWhat does it truly mean to eat seasonally? Seasonal eating is more than purchasing what’s available at the farmers market it’s about learning to read the landscape\, understand your local ecosystem\, and recognize how nature supports our nutritional needs throughout the year. \nJoin us around the garden table to explore how seasonal foods reflect the changing needs of both the environment and our bodies. Together\, we will examine what grows during each season\, how local ecosystems shape the foods available to us\, and how observing these natural cycles can help us make more intentional food choices. Participants will also learn how to identify nutritional strengths and limitations within their regional food system\, encouraging a flexible approach that combines local foods with informed decisions about what may need to be supplemented or sourced elsewhere. \nBy the end of the workshop\, participants will gain practical tools for observing seasonal change\, understanding their local food landscape\, and developing a deeper relationship with the place they call home. \n\n\n\nYour Facilitator: \nJournei Bimwala is a clinical herbalist\, foraging practitioner\, nutrition health coach\, and educator dedicated to helping people build meaningful relationships with the natural world through food and plants. Drawing from her experience in foraging\, herbal medicine\, and community education\, she teaches participants how to reconnect with the landscapes they inhabit by making what is unknown known and what is known accessible. Her work weaves together traditional ecological knowledge\, modern nutritional understanding\, and cultural wisdom to inspire people to see food not only as nourishment\, but as a pathway to health\, connection\, and stewardship.\n\n\n\nCooking\, sharing\, and storytelling through the harvest of the season. \nHistory\, place\, and imagination are all deeply rooted in what and how we grow and eat. \nEach Friday evening\, this supper club gathers around ingredients of the week–produce grown in the garden and food from our local CSA. A CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) is rooted in the idea that community members share in the risks and rewards of farming. By committing to a season’s harvest\, we support farmers through the lands’ and our current food system’s uncertainties and in return\, receive food that is grown in integrity and largely outside of the current extractive and exploitive\, harmful food systems. \nTogether\, we’ll gather to deepen our relationships with the sources of our food and our empathy for the people’s whose hands that food has passed through. \nThrough collaborative cooking\, recipe-sharing\, and conversations around the table\, we explore the cultural\, ecological\, and personal dimensions of food. Drawing inspiration from our kitchen’s stories\, cookbooks\, and the week’s harvest\, we’ll discover how the simple act of preparing and sharing a meal can connect us more deeply to land-workers\, food-workers\, and to the land theirself. \nThis is a free drop-in program. Come to every class or come to one or two that you are available for.\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/csa-supper-club-eating-seasonally-local-ecosystems-seasonal-nutrition/
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SUMMARY:Art in the Garden: Woven Bookmarks
DESCRIPTION:Explore weaving as a slow and attention-sustaining practice in the garden.\n\n\nJoin teaching artist Jessica Lagunas\, who will guide you in a fiber arts project to weave your very own bookmark.Bring the inspiration of the colors of your favorite Spring  flower to choose from a variety of threads and experiment with colors\, textures\, and patterns. After warping the small loom\, we’ll learn to use needles to create basic tabby stitches\, and will finish each bookmark with decorative fringes.\nNo prior weaving experience necessary.\n\n\n\nYour Facilitator: Jessica Lagunas \nJessica Lagunas is a New York City-based Latinx artist. She has participated in museums group exhibitions in the US\, Europe and Latin America\, and has received grants from the Joan Mitchell Foundation\, NYSCA\, Hispanic Society Museum & Library\, and Bronx Council on the Arts among others.\nCurrently her teaching focuses in Fiber Arts\, with experience in the SU-CASA Programs with Bronx Council on the Arts at PSS Andrew Jackson (2025)\, Bronxworks Heights Senior Center (2024)\, Tolentine Zeiser/RAIN Senior Center (2023)\, and with Bronx River Art Center at Northeast Bronx Senior Center (2022); and the Creative Aging Program from NYPL Library at Columbus Library (2024) and Woodlawn Heights Library (2023)\, and independently at this library in 2025.\nShe has also taught bookbinding workshops in organizations such as The Center for Book Arts (Outreach Program)\, The Bronx Library Center\, Wave Hill\, The Laundromat Project at Kelly St.\, among others; and assisted LMCC’s grantee Jennifer Verbit Su-Casa Program at the Riverstone Senior Center (2019).\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-woven-bookmarks/
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:Art in the Garden: Sunshine in a Bottle
DESCRIPTION:Harness the light! Cast rainbows! And find flow working with dried botanicals and upcycled materials\n\n\nWith the arrival of Autumn Equninox\, as the days get shorter\, perserve Summer blooms that brightened your day in your own upcycled botanical lantern. Work with pressed flowers from the garden and upcycled jars to disrupt the wastestream\, create something anew\, and find flow.  \n\n\n\nYour Facilitator: Wilhelmina Grant-Cooper\nWilhelmina Grant-Cooper is a Harlem-based visual artist\, arts instructor\, and author. She transforms found objects into visual art and sparks viewers’ creativity through discussion and hands-on activities. She is an arts instructor in healthcare settings wherein she uses the arts to nurture the creativity of cancer patients\, their families\, and staff. She also guides elder participants through arts projects at senior centers throughout the city.\nFind more of her work at @sistaahstudio on Instagram or on sistaah.org\n\n\n\nJoin us for Art in the Garden every Thursday!\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. \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\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-sunshine-in-a-bottle/
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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/2026-09-15/
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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/2026-09-15/
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SUMMARY:CSA Supper Club: Reclaiming Ancestral Cooking - Beyond the Recipe
DESCRIPTION:Explore the origins stories of CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture)as we unpack and taste test the foods inside.\n\n\nJoin us in the garden and around the table to explore what it truly means to reclaim ancestral cooking by looking beyond traditional recipes and focusing on the principles that guided our ancestors’ relationship with food. Participants will examine how observation\, adaptability\, seasonality\, resourcefulness\, and intention shaped the way people cooked across cultures\, and how these same principles can be applied in modern kitchens. Through discussion and reflection\, the workshop encourages participants to rethink cooking as a meaningful practice that connects us to our bodies\, our communities\, and the changing world around us. \n\n\n\nYour Facilitator: \nJournei Bimwala is a clinical herbalist\, foraging practitioner\, nutrition health coach\, and educator dedicated to helping people build meaningful relationships with the natural world through food and plants. Drawing from her experience in foraging\, herbal medicine\, and community education\, she teaches participants how to reconnect with the landscapes they inhabit by making what is unknown known and what is known accessible. Her work weaves together traditional ecological knowledge\, modern nutritional understanding\, and cultural wisdom to inspire people to see food not only as nourishment\, but as a pathway to health\, connection\, and stewardship.\n\n\n\nCooking\, sharing\, and storytelling through the harvest of the season. \nHistory\, place\, and imagination are all deeply rooted in what and how we grow and eat. \nEach Friday evening\, this supper club gathers around ingredients of the week–produce grown in the garden and food from our local CSA. A CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) is rooted in the idea that community members share in the risks and rewards of farming. By committing to a season’s harvest\, we support farmers through the lands’ and our current food system’s uncertainties and in return\, receive food that is grown in integrity and largely outside of the current extractive and exploitive\, harmful food systems. \nTogether\, we’ll gather to deepen our relationships with the sources of our food and our empathy for the people’s whose hands that food has passed through. \nThrough collaborative cooking\, recipe-sharing\, and conversations around the table\, we explore the cultural\, ecological\, and personal dimensions of food. Drawing inspiration from our kitchen’s stories\, cookbooks\, and the week’s harvest\, we’ll discover how the simple act of preparing and sharing a meal can connect us more deeply to land-workers\, food-workers\, and to the land theirself. \nThis is a free drop-in program. Come to every class or come to one or two that you are available for.\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/csa-supper-club-reclaiming-ancestral-cooking-beyond-the-recipe/
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:Recipes & Rituals for Community Care: Bathing in the Essence of the Garden
DESCRIPTION:Slow down\, breathe\, allow your senses to open\, listen to the messages from nature.\n\n\nJoin us with certified Forest Therapy Guide Lori Klamner to explore how the concept of bathing in the essence of the forest and forest bathing can be integrated right here in our community garden spaces in our very urban landscapes.  \nTogether\, we’ll take a slow walk with invitations to notice the shapes of leaves\, moving our hands to outline the shapes that call to us\, and noticing how it feels for our feet to kiss the earth. Then\, we’ll find a sit spot and allow our minds to focus on parts of the garden that speak to us. After each section of these invitations\, we will have a sharing circle and tea made from foraged and harvesed plants to practice our attention and reflection in our shared learning garden.  \n\n\nYour Facilitator: \nLori Klamner is a climate activist and bodywork therapist. A native New Yorker\, she has found the Urban Forest to be a truly healing and restorative place. She trained to become a Certified Forest Therapist in 2021\, and specializes in group walks in urban parks.\n\n\n\n\nWhat does it mean to heal in community? What does it feel like to extend care—to ourselves\, ecologies\, and our shared earth? \nThis weekly series explores the role of plants in supporting both personal and communal well-being through herbal arts\, folk remedies\, somatic movement\, meditative wildcrafting\, and shared ritual. Participants are guided by guest herbalists\, healing artists\, and wellness practitioners to co-create a toolkit that not only resources individuals in caring for themselves\, but stretches our imagination and capacity to care for the collective and our shared earth. \nRecipes and Rituals for Community Care is rooted in reciprocity with land\, ancestral knowledge\, and the rhythms of the seasons.\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-bathing-in-the-essence-of-the-garden-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/2026-09-08/
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
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/2026-09-08/
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:Gay In The Garden - Ice Tie  Dye
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a fun afternoon ! We'll  make corn husk dolls 1-2pm. Then we will be led by McLean in how to Ice Dye Cloth.\n\n\nJoin us for an afternoon of art and crafting. We will make corn husk dolls then learn how to ice dye.
URL:https://parentguidenews.com/event/gay-in-the-garden-ice-tie-dye/
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:CSA Supper Club: Reclaiming Ancestral Cooking
DESCRIPTION:Explore the origins stories of CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture)as we unpack and taste test the foods inside.\n\n\nJoin us in the garden and around the table to explore how we can reclaim ancestral cooking by recovering the principles that shaped our ancestors’ relationship with food rather than simply recreating historical recipes. Participants will examine how traditional practices such as cooking with the senses\, eating seasonally and locally\, and preparing food with intention can be integrated with modern nutritional knowledge to create a more connected and nourishing approach to cooking. Together\, we will explore what it truly means to eat in relationship with the land\, the seasons\, and the people we feed\, while gaining practical ways to apply these ideas in everyday life.\n\n\n\nYour Facilitator: \nJournei Bimwala is a clinical herbalist\, foraging practitioner\, nutrition health coach\, and educator dedicated to helping people build meaningful relationships with the natural world through food and plants. Drawing from her experience in foraging\, herbal medicine\, and community education\, she teaches participants how to reconnect with the landscapes they inhabit by making what is unknown known and what is known accessible. Her work weaves together traditional ecological knowledge\, modern nutritional understanding\, and cultural wisdom to inspire people to see food not only as nourishment\, but as a pathway to health\, connection\, and stewardship.\n\n\n\nCooking\, sharing\, and storytelling through the harvest of the season. \nHistory\, place\, and imagination are all deeply rooted in what and how we grow and eat. \nEach Friday evening\, this supper club gathers around ingredients of the week–produce grown in the garden and food from our local CSA. A CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) is rooted in the idea that community members share in the risks and rewards of farming. By committing to a season’s harvest\, we support farmers through the lands’ and our current food system’s uncertainties and in return\, receive food that is grown in integrity and largely outside of the current extractive and exploitive\, harmful food systems. \nTogether\, we’ll gather to deepen our relationships with the sources of our food and our empathy for the people’s whose hands that food has passed through. \nThrough collaborative cooking\, recipe-sharing\, and conversations around the table\, we explore the cultural\, ecological\, and personal dimensions of food. Drawing inspiration from our kitchen’s stories\, cookbooks\, and the week’s harvest\, we’ll discover how the simple act of preparing and sharing a meal can connect us more deeply to land-workers\, food-workers\, and to the land theirself. \nThis is a free drop-in program. Come to every class or come to one or two that you are available for.\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/csa-supper-club-reclaiming-ancestral-cooking/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260903T180000
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SUMMARY:Art in the Garden: Pocket Posies
DESCRIPTION:Create a petite and pocket-sided bouquet with a handful of garden blooms for your kitchen table\n\n\nJoin is in the garden among the blooms to create your own pocket full of posies–a minerature bouqet to brighten the smallest of corners. Working with a few select blooms from the garden and from NYC’s flower market\, we’ll create our own pocket-sized floral arrangements\, learning about regenerative flower farming and the power of flowers to convey meaning through symbols and metaphor. \n\n\n\nYour Facilitator: Nicole Smith of A Tribe Called Flowers\nNicole Smith is the founder of A Tribe Called Flowers\, a community-centered project rooted in the belief that flowers—and the joy they bring—should be accessible to everyone. What began as a simple hobby of arranging blooms blossomed into a calling: sharing beauty\, encouragement\, and small moments of brightness with people who need it most.\nNicole describes herself as a flower enthusiast. Through A Tribe Called Flowers\, she creates handcrafted bouquets that are donated\, free of charge\, to local shelters\, rehabilitation centers\, and communities across the city. Each bouquet becomes a gesture of care\, a reminder that someone is thinking of you\, and a spark of joy delivered through flowers. \nAs a nonprofit organization\, all donations to ATCF directly fund the making of these bouquets\, allowing Nicole to continue spreading beauty and connection one arrangement at a time.\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-pocket-posies/
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:Art in the Garden: Drawing with Nature
DESCRIPTION:Draw as a form of care and attention using charcoal and walnut inks to imbue nature into your recordings.\n\n\nCelebrate the close of summer with this hands-on drawing class\, using pencil\, handmade charcoal\, and walnut ink. Together\, we will observe and record plant-life\, as we talk about foraged color techniques that will transition to Fall. This workshop is suitable for all ages. \n\n\n\nPhoto courtesey of artist. ‘Drawing with Nature’ Thurmont Regional Library\, Thurmont\, Maryland\, September 2023 while Artist-in-Residence at Cunningham Falls State Park \nHeader Photos: Courtesey of artist from project: Soil Refuge \nCindy Stockton Moore is a Philadelphia based artist who works with aqueous media to create multimedia animations\, works on paper\, and site-specific installations.  Creating ink from natural materials and hyperlocal species\, she connects to the landscape in tactile ways\, cultivating themes of entangled resilience. Installations currently on view (2026) include ’an openness to all things lovely’ at Glen Foerd and ‘Other Absences’ at Eastern State Penitentiary.  Her experimental collaborative videos have been screened in festivals and exhibitions nationwide and abroad. \nMore at: www.cindystocktonmoore.com\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.
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SUMMARY:Recipes & Rituals for Community Care: Aromatic Landscapes
DESCRIPTION:Capture the sensory landscape of your most beloved places\n\n\nJoin us at the greenhouse to explore the relationship between scent\, nature\, and visual composition through the creation of a miniature aromatic landscape.\nUsing a curated selection of fragrant woods\, resins\, herbs\, flowers\, roots\, and botanical materials\, design a unique landscape within a shadow box to recreate a piece of land special to you. Drawing inspiration from natural environments\, scent traditions\, and botanical artistry\, you’ll create your own composition that engages both the eyes and the nose to capture a sense of place. \n\n\n\nYour Facilitator: Evander (Evandros Amani)\nEvander (Evandros Amani) is a multidisciplinary artist\, herbalist\, and scent maker whose work explores the intersection of art and nature – where form\, fragrance\, and ritual converge. Through his brand Essence Equilibrium\, he creates handcrafted perfumes and sensory experiences that honor nature and celebrate the art of balance. \nFind more of his work at: www.essenceequilibrium.com and on instragram @essenceequilibrium \nPhoto by Nile Scott Studios \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?\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.\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.
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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.
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SUMMARY:Urban Garden 101 - Summer Harvest
DESCRIPTION:Participants will harvest summer crops and learn how to prepare the garden for fall.\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 the beggining of Summer\, 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. Participants will also make bi-products from the herbs in the garden. \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.
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SUMMARY:CSA Supper Club: Let's Eat (Exchange Authentic Thoughts)
DESCRIPTION:Explore the origins stories of CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture)as we unpack and taste test the foods inside.\n\n\nJoin us for CSA Supper Club for collaborative cooking\, recipe-sharing\, and conversations around the table as we explore the cultural\, ecological\, and personal dimensions of food. \nGather around our garden table for a community supper where simple food creates space for meaningful conversation. With our guest chef Brandy\, each month\, we explore one everyday food through a short Food Spotlight\, uncovering the ideas and simple frameworks that make healthy eating approachable. Then we gather around the table to share a seasonal meal and exchange authentic thoughts about food\, wellness\, culture\, and life. \nJoin us as the table to slow down\, connect with others\, and rediscover the power of sharing a meal. \nToday’s Menu: The Anatomy of a Sandwich \n\n\n\nYour Facilitator: Brandy Cochrane\nBrandy 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 the co-founder of Plant Candy\, a food company committed to getting you just as excited about plants as you are about candy. Her fascination with plant-based living came after reading The China Study and converting one of her grandma’s cake recipes with butter beans and dates. Once she saw that it worked\, she went down a rabbit hole exploring ways to leverage the textures of plants and building in familiar flavor profiles to create food that anyone could enjoy. A graduate of Rouxbe’s Plant-Based Culinary Program\, Brandy has used her knowledge to introduce this healing lifestyle in a way that’s fun\, accessible\, and creative. Her cookbook\, Plant Candy Gathering\, shares simple recipes that can be enjoyed by the plant-committed and plant-curious alike. Her latest book\, The Plant-Based Handbook\, which simplifies the benefits and resources for sustaining a plant-based lifestyle\, was released in 2024. Brandy wants to create a narrative that a splash of creativity\, a dash of openness\, and a lot of spice can make plant-based living enjoyable and fun!\n\n\n\nCooking\, sharing\, and storytelling through the harvest of the season. \nHistory\, place\, and imagination are all deeply rooted in what and how we grow and eat. \nEach Friday evening\, this supper club gathers around ingredients of the week–produce grown in the garden and food from our local CSA. A CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) is rooted in the idea that community members share in the risks and rewards of farming. By committing to a season’s harvest\, we support farmers through the lands’ and our current food system’s uncertainties and in return\, receive food that is grown in integrity and largely outside of the current extractive and exploitive\, harmful food systems. \nTogether\, we’ll gather to deepen our relationships with the sources of our food and our empathy for the people’s whose hands that food has passed through. \nThrough collaborative cooking\, recipe-sharing\, and conversations around the table\, we explore the cultural\, ecological\, and personal dimensions of food. Drawing inspiration from our kitchen’s stories\, cookbooks\, and the week’s harvest\, we’ll discover how the simple act of preparing and sharing a meal can connect us more deeply to land-workers\, food-workers\, and to the land theirself. \nThis is a free drop-in program. Come to every class or come to one or two that you are available for.\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.
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SUMMARY:Art & AgriCulture: Toning Cyanotypes with Food Scraps & Culinary Herbs
DESCRIPTION:Transform cyanotypes with kitchen scraps and herbs\, revealing the hidden stories carried by everyday meals.\n\n\nExplore the world of cyanotype toning with kitchen scraps and culinary herbs from the garden as we learn how to transform the ingredients of everyday meals into photographic traces from meaningful food memories. Together\, we’ll begin in the garden to create cyanotypes from plants gathered in the garden and transparencies of photos of the plants and people of our greenhouse community. Then\, we’ll be guided through the process of toning our cyanotypes to shift the colors and chemistries of our prints\, and work with plants like hibiscus\, lemon\, coffee\, teas\, marigolds\, and various kitchen scraps; reflecting on how these plants find their ways to our kitchen tables to our art\, collaborating us throughout the process. Join us to talk about the materiality of the plants we imbibe and create with.  \nParticipants are invited to bring their own transparencies or pressed plants they feel akin to\, but a number of plants and already printed transparencies are also available. To print your own transparencies\, see this tutorial\, though many printing places will print for you as well.) \n\n\n\nPhoto Courtesey of artist Nadia Bongo. Find more about Nadia’s work at https://www.nadiabongo.com/\nNadia Bongo is a teaching artist and translator.She has earned a Brooklyn Poets Fellowship. Her writing and/or photographs have appeared in Apex\, African Voices\, Litro online\, Solstice\, The Citron Review\, Taos journal of Poetry\, Blue Mesa Review\, and elsewhere. She was a Teaching Artist in Residence for Washington Square Park Conservancy. Her co-directed short poetry film\, Wandering In Beauty\, has been selected to festivals worldwide\, and will be on view for a group exhibition at BRAC.\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? \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. \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-agriculture-toning-cyanotypes-with-food-scraps-culinary-herbs/
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