BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//PARENTGUIDENEWS - ECPv6.17.4.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:PARENTGUIDENEWS X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://parentguidenews.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for PARENTGUIDENEWS REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260906T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260906T150000 DTSTAMP:20260818T053019Z CREATED:20260818T050511Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260818T053019Z UID:10038656-1788699600-1788706800@parentguidenews.com 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://parentguidenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/760908e5f329fd333dc8bbe2df9777d4.jpg GEO:40.8269525;-73.952552 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park 679 Riverside Dr Greenhouse New York NY 10031 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse:geo:-73.952552,40.8269525 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260904T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260904T183000 DTSTAMP:20260818T053018Z CREATED:20260818T050510Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260818T053018Z UID:10038655-1788543000-1788546600@parentguidenews.com 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://parentguidenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/6a6f7504d9347d66c4885ef746f305e6.jpg GEO:40.8269525;-73.952552 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park 679 Riverside Dr Greenhouse New York NY 10031 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse:geo:-73.952552,40.8269525 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260903T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260903T190000 DTSTAMP:20260818T053017Z CREATED:20260818T050504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260818T053017Z UID:10038654-1788458400-1788462000@parentguidenews.com 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://parentguidenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/3be67ee7979b9b716a454a40989a4087.jpg GEO:40.8269525;-73.952552 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park 679 Riverside Dr Greenhouse New York NY 10031 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse:geo:-73.952552,40.8269525 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260903T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260903T180000 DTSTAMP:20260818T053015Z CREATED:20260818T050459Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260818T053015Z UID:10038653-1788454800-1788458400@parentguidenews.com 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. URL:https://parentguidenews.com/event/art-in-the-garden-drawing-with-nature/ LOCATION:The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park\, 679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://parentguidenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/be18396e948a8311d9bb0cbaf3ddec4a.jpg GEO:40.8269525;-73.952552 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park 679 Riverside Dr Greenhouse New York NY 10031 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse:geo:-73.952552,40.8269525 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260902T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260902T183000 DTSTAMP:20260818T053014Z CREATED:20260818T050455Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260818T053014Z UID:10038652-1788370200-1788373800@parentguidenews.com 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. URL:https://parentguidenews.com/event/recipes-rituals-for-community-care-aromatic-landscapes/ LOCATION:The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park\, 679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://parentguidenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/227950513b1b9997496f858c8d890427.jpg GEO:40.8269525;-73.952552 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park 679 Riverside Dr Greenhouse New York NY 10031 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse:geo:-73.952552,40.8269525 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260901T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260901T120000 DTSTAMP:20231102T012102Z CREATED:20230306T173523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231102T012102Z UID:10001705-1788260400-1788264000@parentguidenews.com 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/2026-09-01/ LOCATION:The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park\, 679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States CATEGORIES:Food ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://parentguidenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/appointmentType-thumb-40023024-jpg.webp GEO:40.8269525;-73.952552 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park 679 Riverside Dr Greenhouse New York NY 10031 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse:geo:-73.952552,40.8269525 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260901T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260901T130000 DTSTAMP:20230306T171350Z CREATED:20230306T171350Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230306T171350Z UID:10000924-1788256800-1788267600@parentguidenews.com 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/2026-09-01/ LOCATION:The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park\, 679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://parentguidenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/appointmentType-thumb-40023605-jpg.webp GEO:40.8269525;-73.952552 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park 679 Riverside Dr Greenhouse New York NY 10031 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse:geo:-73.952552,40.8269525 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260831T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260831T190000 DTSTAMP:20260818T052602Z CREATED:20260818T050102Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260818T052602Z UID:10038651-1788197400-1788202800@parentguidenews.com 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. URL:https://parentguidenews.com/event/urban-garden-101-summer-harvest/ LOCATION:The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park\, 679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://parentguidenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/a8124fb5be66ee57f2840ddfd66dc81a.jpg GEO:40.8269525;-73.952552 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park 679 Riverside Dr Greenhouse New York NY 10031 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse:geo:-73.952552,40.8269525 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260828T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260828T183000 DTSTAMP:20260818T052601Z CREATED:20260818T050057Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260818T052601Z UID:10038650-1787938200-1787941800@parentguidenews.com 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. URL:https://parentguidenews.com/event/csa-supper-club-lets-eat-exchange-authentic-thoughts/ LOCATION:The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park\, 679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://parentguidenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/6a6f7504d9347d66c4885ef746f305e6.jpg GEO:40.8269525;-73.952552 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park 679 Riverside Dr Greenhouse New York NY 10031 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse:geo:-73.952552,40.8269525 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260827T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260827T190000 DTSTAMP:20260818T052601Z CREATED:20260818T050053Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260818T052601Z UID:10038649-1787853600-1787857200@parentguidenews.com 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/ LOCATION:The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park\, 679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://parentguidenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/dbed1bd54b2714df335cedb0be6925d2.jpg GEO:40.8269525;-73.952552 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park 679 Riverside Dr Greenhouse New York NY 10031 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse:geo:-73.952552,40.8269525 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260827T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260827T180000 DTSTAMP:20260818T052600Z CREATED:20260818T050049Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260818T052600Z UID:10038648-1787850000-1787853600@parentguidenews.com SUMMARY:Art in the Garden: Garden Archives DESCRIPTION:What Stories Do Our Gardens Tell? How Will We Keep These Stories Alive?\n\n\n“The whole world will become a home to all of us\, or none of us can hope to live on it\, peacefully. But much of the American dream mistakenly supposes that\, like a tree\, we will grow and flourish\, standing in one place…”— June Jordan\, Moving Towards Home\nHow do we preserve and sustain the stories\, cultural memory\, and legacy of our community garden spaces and our communities’ relationships to public land? Join us to egage in community archiving through photo printing\, archiving\, and collage making using recycled garden and herbs materials.\n\n\n\nYour Facilitator: \nStephanie Alvarado (they/she) is a queer disabled antidisciplinary artist\, archivist\, poet\, curator\, and cultural organizer for 20 years. Through their Fotos y Recuerdos Archive project\, they have facilitated over 40 intergenerational workshops since 2020 on photo archiving and collective memory work as a form of resistance for queer\, trans\, and disabled people of color. Alvarado currently serves on the board of The Literary Freedom Project and is co-curator of “The World(s) She Made: Composing The Radical Lives of Kathleen Neal Cleaver” as part of The Last Hummingbird Collective.\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. \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-garden-archives/ LOCATION:The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park\, 679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://parentguidenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/ba6e295a1f9d6003d0dbf5ba98f7dd65.jpg GEO:40.8269525;-73.952552 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park 679 Riverside Dr Greenhouse New York NY 10031 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse:geo:-73.952552,40.8269525 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260826T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260826T183000 DTSTAMP:20260818T052558Z CREATED:20260818T050045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260818T052558Z UID:10038647-1787765400-1787769000@parentguidenews.com SUMMARY:Recipes & Rituals for Community Care: Butterfly Pea Tea and Meditation DESCRIPTION:Inspired by plant ally butterfly pea\, we'll tune into all that is blue and beautiful.\n\n\n“Tea is an act complete in its simplicity. When I drink tea\, there is only me and the tea. The rest of the world dissolves.” — Thich Nhat Hanh\nJoin us for a moment to slow down for a reflective evening of tea\, and meditation. Grounding in our botanical tea of the evening of butterfly pea\, we’ll explore how this plant as a tea can help us have a mindful moment for ourselves as well as connect us to each other and our shared ecologies. Tia will share her practice with both tea and meditation\, sharing how these practices can contribute to collective care for ourselves and each other.\nTake time to exchange breath with the plants in the greenhouse\, enjoy and herbal tea to calm the body\, and rest into a guided meditation inspired by the very plants nourishing our bodies through tea.\n\n\n\nYour Facilitator: Mattia “Tia” Colon\nMattia “Tia” Colon is a Master Level Social Worker\, Meditation Facilitator & Community Gardener. It is her connection to a Vietnamese Buddhist temple in The Bronx that influences and inspires her work. Tia hosts soundbowl meditation events\, and medicinal tea ceremonies with diverse groups of people across New York City. She utilizes various singing bowls and other instruments to create sound frequencies to induce a relaxing and healing atmosphere. She incorporates other nature related activities\, such as gardening and herbalism with a contemplated twist to create powerful\, unique\, 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-butterfly-pea-tea-and-meditation/ LOCATION:The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park\, 679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://parentguidenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/9c31abfc4ebf6e20311110cc187c53cb.jpg GEO:40.8269525;-73.952552 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park 679 Riverside Dr Greenhouse New York NY 10031 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse:geo:-73.952552,40.8269525 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260825T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260825T120000 DTSTAMP:20231102T012102Z CREATED:20230306T173523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231102T012102Z UID:10001704-1787655600-1787659200@parentguidenews.com 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/2026-08-25/ LOCATION:The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park\, 679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States CATEGORIES:Food ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://parentguidenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/appointmentType-thumb-40023024-jpg.webp GEO:40.8269525;-73.952552 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park 679 Riverside Dr Greenhouse New York NY 10031 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse:geo:-73.952552,40.8269525 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260825T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260825T130000 DTSTAMP:20230306T171350Z CREATED:20230306T171350Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230306T171350Z UID:10000923-1787652000-1787662800@parentguidenews.com 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/2026-08-25/ LOCATION:The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park\, 679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://parentguidenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/appointmentType-thumb-40023605-jpg.webp GEO:40.8269525;-73.952552 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park 679 Riverside Dr Greenhouse New York NY 10031 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse:geo:-73.952552,40.8269525 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260822T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260822T140000 DTSTAMP:20260818T052157Z CREATED:20260818T045626Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260818T052157Z UID:10038646-1787396400-1787407200@parentguidenews.com SUMMARY:Bee Jubilee featuring the New York Flower Show DESCRIPTION:A celebration of bees\, blooms\, and the many relationships alive in our garden!\n\n\nJoin The Hort at the Greenhouse & Education Center at the Bee Jubilee featuring the New York Flower Show™\, an afternoon celebrating bees and the flowering plants that sustain them. Explore the garden at your own pace\, get an up-close look at bees under a microscope\, learn how to support native bees at home\, wander through our pollinator garden\, dance like a bee\, and gather around flowers grown in our Learning Garden. Come for one activity or stay for the whole Jubilee. Activities are free and open to all ages\, and the event is rain or shine. \n \nBee Discovery & Bee Habitat Love | 11 AM–12 PM \nLearn all about both honeybees and native bees through observing bees from a microscope\, fun bee info and trivia\, and honey tastings. Learn about pollinator ports\, bee bunkers\, and even create your own bee bath to learn all about how you can be a steward to support all kinds of bee species! \nPollinator Garden Tour / Bee a Bee | 12–1 PM \nTake a guided walk through the Pollinator Garden with a gardener to meet some of the flowers and plants that feed and shelter pollinators throughout the season or\, for the kids and kids at heart\, dress up to learn about bee anatomy\, and discover how bees communicate through creative movement. \nPollinator Posies: Flower Arranging | 1–2 PM \nEnd the Jubilee among the flowers! Create your own bouquet inspired by the pollinator-loving blooms\, then spread flower seeds to keep the garden growing. \n \nAccessibility: Our kitchen/classroom space is wheelchair accessible. With prior planning\, we can add a few small mats onto the pebbled ground of the 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. URL:https://parentguidenews.com/event/bee-jubilee-featuring-the-new-york-flower-show/ LOCATION:The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park\, 679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://parentguidenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/9b717fa6c7f2a563de6260bd3ec89b0d.jpg GEO:40.8269525;-73.952552 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park 679 Riverside Dr Greenhouse New York NY 10031 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse:geo:-73.952552,40.8269525 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260821T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260821T183000 DTSTAMP:20260818T052156Z CREATED:20260818T045620Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260818T052156Z UID:10038645-1787333400-1787337000@parentguidenews.com SUMMARY:CSA Supper Club: Herbal Agua Fresca DESCRIPTION:Join us around the garden table for cooking\, sharing\, and storytelling through the harvest of the season\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. \nCool down with a refreshing agua fresca (drink) made with cooling herbs and fruits from the CSA and garden. \nJoin us to make your own cooling syrup to use for your own agua fresca at home. \n\n\n\nYour Facilitator: Diana Arellano\nDiana is a clinical herbalist raised in the southside of Chicago with roots in Durango\, Mexico now based in Brooklyn\, NY. For the past 15 years\, herbal medicine has played a key role in Diana’s healing journey and she has been working closely with plants\, teachers\, and curanderas to continue deepening her knowledge of plants. She loves to teach single herb workshops to highlight the extensive magic and medicine that any herb holds. During her herbal workshops\, Diana empowers participants to use their intuition and senses to guide their own relationship with plants. Through establishing a reciprocal relationship with plants\, we’re reminded of the connection and aliveness in ourselves and in plant beings.\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-herbal-agua-fresca/ LOCATION:The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park\, 679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://parentguidenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/4c7cb86762b289a0ab26c83f4e95c7fc.jpg GEO:40.8269525;-73.952552 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park 679 Riverside Dr Greenhouse New York NY 10031 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse:geo:-73.952552,40.8269525 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260820T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260820T190000 DTSTAMP:20260818T052155Z CREATED:20260818T045616Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260818T052155Z UID:10038644-1787248800-1787252400@parentguidenews.com SUMMARY:Art in the Garden: Rose Beads DESCRIPTION:Create Your Own Charm Bracelet Made of Beautifully Fragrant Roses!\n\n\nDid you know that the Latin word for rosary is rosarium\, meaning “gardland of roses”? Centuries ago\, people were practicing the craft of turning rose petals into clay to create beads for their rosaries. \nBorrowing from this tradition\, we will create our own rose beads to craft our own charm bracelets to wear roses like we wear our hearts on our sleeves. \nWhile we wait for for our beads to bake\, we’ll sip on rose tea and reflect on the work of our hands\, and how we may choose to be in veneration of plants\, communing creativly with plant kin through our artistic practices. \nIn a season of Shein\, let’s examine the root of our adornments and that cost to our ecologies. The best custom couture is of the soil\, of our hands\, of our community. Join us to consider where our plants come from\, not just through our foods\, but how we we adorn and beautify ourselves. \n\n\n\nYour Facilitator: Jules Jīvanī Ruby Kulaya \nI focus on ritual\, routine\, and divinity across nature & culture in my art and holistic wellness services. Through a long-term background working in theater\, I became disenchanted with the industry- as time went on… particularly\, post Lockdown – it wasn’t the storytelling I thought I signed up for. I found there was a lack of intention in the processes\, and a lot of waste\, adding to the climate crises When I began to seriously set aside time for the care of my spirit\, I began to learn\, remember – that what I was called to practice\, was already rooted in my body’s memory and ancestry. My lived experience & career has led me to an ethos rooted in advocacy & activism for the overlapping intersections of the global majority\, LGBTQIA+ and neurodiverse communities\, with a focus on mental wellbeing and resource access. \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-rose-beads/ LOCATION:The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park\, 679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://parentguidenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/5a7c23f2d2d01bbbbf5034ba5f5e0860.jpg GEO:40.8269525;-73.952552 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park 679 Riverside Dr Greenhouse New York NY 10031 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse:geo:-73.952552,40.8269525 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260820T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260820T180000 DTSTAMP:20260818T052154Z CREATED:20260818T045612Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260818T052154Z UID:10038643-1787245200-1787248800@parentguidenews.com SUMMARY:Art in the Garden: Flow Session DESCRIPTION:Work with materials and metaphors from the sea & find your creative flow\n\n\nDeepen into the vastness that is the sea to work with both material and metaphor of the ocean to reaquaint with your creativity and find flow. Together we’ll work with natural materials such as shells and driftwood as well as upcycled materials to create mobiles for all our littoral lullabies. Let seaweed\, shells\, and ocean life be your guides as you work to pull away from self-doubt\, quiet the ego\, and trust your authentic creative voice as you like the sea\, find your flow. \n\n\n\nYour Facilitator: Junell Banks\nJunell Banks is a creative visionary from Harlem\, who blends her passions for creative direction\, youth empowerment\, and self-love advocacy. Through her multifaceted initiatives\, she embodies a commitment to inspiring those around her to embrace their authentic selves with creativity and confidence. \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.\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-flow-session/ LOCATION:The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park\, 679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://parentguidenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/ec25e55a76d7a99eff8ab0ada674f48f.jpg GEO:40.8269525;-73.952552 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park 679 Riverside Dr Greenhouse New York NY 10031 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse:geo:-73.952552,40.8269525 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260819T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260819T183000 DTSTAMP:20260818T052154Z CREATED:20260818T045608Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260818T052154Z UID:10038642-1787160600-1787164200@parentguidenews.com 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/ LOCATION:The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park\, 679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://parentguidenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/4743ae4d4f5efe01b99ca07006818294.jpg GEO:40.8269525;-73.952552 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park 679 Riverside Dr Greenhouse New York NY 10031 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse:geo:-73.952552,40.8269525 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260818T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260818T120000 DTSTAMP:20231102T012102Z CREATED:20230306T173523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231102T012102Z UID:10001703-1787050800-1787054400@parentguidenews.com 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/2026-08-18/ LOCATION:The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park\, 679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States CATEGORIES:Food ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://parentguidenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/appointmentType-thumb-40023024-jpg.webp GEO:40.8269525;-73.952552 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park 679 Riverside Dr Greenhouse New York NY 10031 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse:geo:-73.952552,40.8269525 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260818T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260818T130000 DTSTAMP:20230306T171350Z CREATED:20230306T171350Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230306T171350Z UID:10000922-1787047200-1787058000@parentguidenews.com 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/2026-08-18/ LOCATION:The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park\, 679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://parentguidenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/appointmentType-thumb-40023605-jpg.webp GEO:40.8269525;-73.952552 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park 679 Riverside Dr Greenhouse New York NY 10031 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse:geo:-73.952552,40.8269525 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260811T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260811T120000 DTSTAMP:20231102T012102Z CREATED:20230306T173523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231102T012102Z UID:10001702-1786446000-1786449600@parentguidenews.com 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/2026-08-11/ LOCATION:The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park\, 679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States CATEGORIES:Food ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://parentguidenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/appointmentType-thumb-40023024-jpg.webp GEO:40.8269525;-73.952552 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park 679 Riverside Dr Greenhouse New York NY 10031 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse:geo:-73.952552,40.8269525 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260811T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260811T130000 DTSTAMP:20230306T171350Z CREATED:20230306T171350Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230306T171350Z UID:10000921-1786442400-1786453200@parentguidenews.com 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/2026-08-11/ LOCATION:The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park\, 679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://parentguidenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/appointmentType-thumb-40023605-jpg.webp GEO:40.8269525;-73.952552 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park 679 Riverside Dr Greenhouse New York NY 10031 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse:geo:-73.952552,40.8269525 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260804T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260804T120000 DTSTAMP:20231102T012102Z CREATED:20230306T173523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231102T012102Z UID:10001701-1785841200-1785844800@parentguidenews.com 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/2026-08-04/ LOCATION:The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park\, 679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States CATEGORIES:Food ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://parentguidenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/appointmentType-thumb-40023024-jpg.webp GEO:40.8269525;-73.952552 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park 679 Riverside Dr Greenhouse New York NY 10031 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse:geo:-73.952552,40.8269525 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260804T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260804T130000 DTSTAMP:20230306T171350Z CREATED:20230306T171350Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230306T171350Z UID:10000920-1785837600-1785848400@parentguidenews.com 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/2026-08-04/ LOCATION:The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park\, 679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://parentguidenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/appointmentType-thumb-40023605-jpg.webp GEO:40.8269525;-73.952552 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park 679 Riverside Dr Greenhouse New York NY 10031 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse:geo:-73.952552,40.8269525 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260803T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260803T190000 DTSTAMP:20260719T045726Z CREATED:20260719T045726Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260719T045726Z UID:10038223-1785778200-1785783600@parentguidenews.com SUMMARY:Urban Garden 101 - How to process stinging nettle DESCRIPTION:Participants will learn how to harvest yarrow and calendula. They will then weed and plant summer vegetables.\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. URL:https://parentguidenews.com/event/urban-garden-101-how-to-process-stinging-nettle/ LOCATION:The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park\, 679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://parentguidenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/a8124fb5be66ee57f2840ddfd66dc81a.jpg GEO:40.8269525;-73.952552 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park 679 Riverside Dr Greenhouse New York NY 10031 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse:geo:-73.952552,40.8269525 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260730T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260730T180000 DTSTAMP:20260719T045722Z CREATED:20260719T045722Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260719T045722Z UID:10038222-1785430800-1785434400@parentguidenews.com SUMMARY:Art in the Garden: Floral Light Catchers DESCRIPTION:Harness the light! Cast rainbows! And find flow working with pressed flowers and upcycled materials\n\n\nCreate your own light catchers and craft with community. Work with pressed flowers from the garden and upcycled materials to disrupt the wastestream and find flow. All materials provided. \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-floral-light-catchers/ LOCATION:The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park\, 679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://parentguidenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/cb0a845600353e761fae26f488703c69.jpg GEO:40.8269525;-73.952552 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park 679 Riverside Dr Greenhouse New York NY 10031 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse:geo:-73.952552,40.8269525 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260729T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260729T183000 DTSTAMP:20260719T045317Z CREATED:20260719T045317Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260719T045317Z UID:10038221-1785346200-1785349800@parentguidenews.com SUMMARY:Recipes & Rituals for Community Care: Cacao & Cosmovisions DESCRIPTION:Working with Heart Medicine of Cacao & The Cacao Tree in Mayan Cosmovision\n\n\nJoin us to learn about the cacao tree\, exploring more deeply the sacred medicine of this plant pre-colonization by also learning about the Mayan Cosmovision through exploring the Mayan energy of the day. \nTogether\, we’ll enjoy the plant medicine that is cacao\, honor this plant’s storied history\, and re-learn some of the worldviews and cultural frameworks that can help shape more intimate reciprocol relationships with cacao. \n\n\n\nYour Facilitator: Vivian 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.\n\n\nPhoto Courtesey of artist Vivian Arias. Find more about Vivian’s work at https://www.crystallinechrysalis.co/ \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-cacao-cosmovisions/ LOCATION:The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park\, 679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://parentguidenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/455aac67ec9ceedfd2d004283654be7b.jpg GEO:40.8269525;-73.952552 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park 679 Riverside Dr Greenhouse New York NY 10031 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse:geo:-73.952552,40.8269525 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260728T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260728T120000 DTSTAMP:20231102T012102Z CREATED:20230306T173523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231102T012102Z UID:10001700-1785236400-1785240000@parentguidenews.com 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/2026-07-28/ LOCATION:The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park\, 679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States CATEGORIES:Food ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://parentguidenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/appointmentType-thumb-40023024-jpg.webp GEO:40.8269525;-73.952552 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park 679 Riverside Dr Greenhouse New York NY 10031 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse:geo:-73.952552,40.8269525 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260728T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260728T130000 DTSTAMP:20230306T171350Z CREATED:20230306T171350Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230306T171350Z UID:10000919-1785232800-1785243600@parentguidenews.com 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/2026-07-28/ LOCATION:The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park\, 679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://parentguidenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/appointmentType-thumb-40023605-jpg.webp GEO:40.8269525;-73.952552 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park 679 Riverside Dr Greenhouse New York NY 10031 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=679 Riverside Dr\, Greenhouse:geo:-73.952552,40.8269525 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR