UPCOMING EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
All events are held at the greenhouses in Waterford at 28058 N. Lake Drive. Events are free unless otherwise noted.
Educational and Container Workshops
Spring 2025 Educational and Container Planting Classes
Container Workshops
Once again we are offering an interesting and exceptional line-up of classes and educational speakers. Please sign-up, bring a friend(s) and come create a beautiful container of increase your knowledge about the plants you LOVE to grow.
When spring begins to tempt us, it is always a joy to come into the greenhouses where plants are green and blooming, and the temperature is around 70 degrees.
Join us for a container planting workshop where after a short tutorial and a walk-through each greenhouse, you will design and select 6-7 plants for your 13-inch black container. Once your container is planted and watered, we will tag it with your name and place it on our greenhouses where we will care for it while it grows. Containers can then be picked up after Mother’s Day-with flexibility based on the weather.
For this workshop, we need to provide you with a container, however if you want to bring your own containers and plant your own, check out the May container workshops below.
Cost is $40.00 and paid at the time of the class. Cost includes the 13-inch pot, soil-mix, plants, and care until you pick it up.
This is the 3rd year that we have been doing this workshop, and the feedback is always that it is “super-fun”.
There is no cost for the workshop but is based on the plants you select, and the amount of soil-mix needed. You can bring your own container(s) or we have some here for purchase based on the size and design ($5-30). After a short demonstration and discussion on how to select plants and design your container, and a walk-through the greenhouses, we will assist you with the design and planting of your container-as much or as little as you need. We want you to leave here with a container that you will love and enjoy all season.
The best part-leave the mess with us and take home a container that you used your own creativity to design and can be proud of.
Plant costs vary: $3.30; $5.50; or $9.00.
Free Educational Workshops
In this presentation and discussion on composting, we will cover the basics of composting including how to start your own composting pile by balancing green and brown materials. You will learn the steps to maintain your compost, from turning the pile to maintaining the moisture levels. Additionally, we will introduce worm composting where we will set up a small worm bin to break down kitchen scraps into rich, healthy soil. The second half of this is a hands-on activity.
This workshop is free-we provide coffee, tea, water, and a homemade breakfast goodie.
Planting a garden, weeding, picking, and preserving the fruits of your labor is very rewarding. Knowing where your food comes from is also a great motivator to start your own garden. With raised-bed gardens sprouting up everywhere, there is no better time to address this topic. When you are putting in a lot of work, why not maximize the yield of your plants as well as the nutritional benefits of vegetables you grow?
Join us as Michelle Cannon from Larryville Gardens in Burlington discuss how they achieve maximum yields and great tasting, highly nutritional organic produce. Michelle is an encyclopedia of information and will share what she knows with us.
This workshop is free-we provide coffee, tea, water, and a homemade breakfast goodie.
Commercial Herb Grower Eric Hines will reveal best practices of seed-starting of medicinal herbs for the home gardener. He will discuss the basics of stratification, scarification, and light determinant germination, as well as the dynamic process of germination, processes that apply to all types of seeds that you start in your own home.
Eric will give examples of some of the plants he has grown that can be beautifully added to home gardens, including butterfly weed, angelica, and European elderberry. Eric will also talk about the failures he has learned from while growing medicinal herbs and encourage home gardeners to learn from their mistakes through observation. He will share simple techniques for collecting seeds for future plantings.
Participants can take home a free European elderberry cutting, and Eric will demonstrate how to successfully root the cutting at home.
This workshop is free-we provide coffee, tea, water, and a homemade breakfast goodie.
Scheduling in progress: check back for updates