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  • Wednesdays, April 20 – May 4, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Super Small Space Veggie Gardening, Online

    Whether you have a terrace, rooftop, or tiny backyard, learn how to grow the most veggies in the space you have. Discover the best practices for successful small-space gardening from soil preparation to container selection and bed design, crop choices, and tips for high-yield results. Get your season started with smart seed ordering, growing and choosing the right transplants, and strategizing for irrigation, pest management, and more. Class includes time to tailor lessons learned to your particular garden space. This three session New York Botanical Garden class taught by Annie Novak begins April 20 and continues each Wednesday through May 4, from 6 – 8. $169 for NYBG members, $185 for nonmembers. Register HERE.

  • Sunday, January 23, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm – A Kitchen Garden Plan, Online

    Devote special new space for herbs, vegetables, fruits, and flowers for cutting. Get design inspirations for planning your own kitchen garden and discover tried-and-true small trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants best suited to your site. Explore annuals and perennials, herbs for tea and culinary uses, and great ways to include both classic and novelty vegetables. Winter is a great time to start planning with this New York Botanical Garden online course on January 23 from 10 – 1. $55 for NYBG members, $59 for nonmembers. Register HERE.

  • Tuesdays, August 17 – August 31, 6:15 pm – 8:15 pm – Rooftop Gardening, Online

    Farms and edible gardens are popping up on rooftops across the country. But rooftop, terraces, and balcony spaces have their own unique challenges for soil maintenance, watering, crop management, installation, and more. Manager of NYBG’s Edible Academy Annie Novak, cofounder of America’s first fully landscaped green roof commercial vegetable farm and author of the 2016 bestseller The Rooftop Growing Guide, shows you how to make your rooftop garden thrive. From vegetable selection to pest control to composting, you’ll learn the basics of rooftop, terrace, and balcony growing, covering both container and green roof garden systems. The Rooftop Growing Guide: How to Transform Your Roof, by Annie Novak, is the required text. The New York Botanical Garden’s virtual course will be held every week on Tuesday starting August 17 and running through August 31, from 6:15 – 8:15. $125.00 – register HERE.

  • Sunday, September 18, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – Gardens at Clock Barn

    The Gardens at Clock Barn in Carlisle, Massachusetts have been created by Maureen and Mike Ruettger over the last thirty years. The house and drying barn date back to 1790. As you enter the gardens through an arched gate, you walk by the old barn which has trays filled with herbs and flowers from the cutting garden beyond. These trays were built in the late 1930’s as a Works Progress Administration project for the drying of digitalis leaves for medicinal use. A grape arbor leads into a walled garden with four quadrants anchored by antique roses and mixed borders with sweeps of foxgloves, Salvia viridis, and nepeta intertwined with salad greens and edible herbs. A second tier is flanked by two reflecting pools fringed by Allium senescens montanum and an herbal tapestry design mirrored on each side. A greenhouse and potting area houses a collection of more than forty varieties of scented geraniums on one side and pots of kaffir limes, Meyer lemons, figs, bay, and rosemary on the other. Exiting the glass house, a canopy of 100-year-old oaks provides shade for paths that wind through a series of woodland gardens and past a small pond and water feature bordered by hakonechloa. Hosta divisions from the garden of Francis Williams anchor the first shade garden. Favorite plantings in these gardens include anemones, epimediums, Kirengeshoma palmata, Jeffersonia dubia, and shade-loving peonies. The path widens as you exit the gardens through a hornbeam arch to finish the tour below the face of The Clock Barn.

    The Garden Conservancy is pleased to present the opportunity to tour the Gardens as part of the Open Gardens 2016 Schedule, on Sunday, September 18 from 10 – 4. $7 admission. As part of this Open Day, there will be a special event, “Growing Food at Clock Barn Farm – A Program for Families,” with Annie Novak & Maureen Ruettgers. Registration details may be found at www.gardenconservancy.org.

    Directions: From Boston, take Route 24 south to Exit 14A and merge onto I-495 South. Take Exit 7A for Route 24 North toward Boston. Merge onto Route 24 North and go about 18 miles. Take Exit 21B to merge onto I-93 South toward I-95. Continue on I-95 North for 21 miles. Take Exit 31B for Route 4 North/Route 225 West. Merge onto Bedford Street/Route 225/Route 4 and continue to follow Route 225/Route 4 for 2.8 miles. Turn left at Carlisle Road/Route 225. Turn right to stay on Carlisle Road/Route 225 and follow to destination on right.  Photo by Marion Brenner.

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  • Sunday, May 22, 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm – The Rooftop Growing Guide: How to Transform Your Roof into a Garden or Farm

    Author Annie Novak of New York Botanical Garden will share a slideshow of forms and gardens featured in her new book, revealing the hidden world of rooftop farming and how you, too, can get growing.  Novak will answer your questions after her presentation, which will take place Sunday, May 22 from 12 – 1 at Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive in Boylston.  Free with admission to the garden, but pre-registration required at www.towerhillbg.org.  Annie is the head farmer and cofounder of the nation’s first commercial green roof vegetable farm, as well as the manager of the Edible Academy of the NYBG, and founder and idrector of Growing Chefs, a field-to-fork food education program.