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Tag: New England Botanical Garden

  • Tuesday, July 18, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Eastern – Picnic Delights, Online

    In this online New England Botanical Garden workshop on July 18, discover beautiful, delectable, and stress-free foods to create for outdoor eating.  We will be preparing a mix of vegetarian, fish, and dairy dishes that are heavy on vegetables, fruits, and herbs that enhance flavors and help us to eat more healthfully. 

    During this 90-minute class we will make four dishes:

    • Tofu or tuna/caper roll-ups. These are brightly flavored and layered with greens, shredded vegetables, and homemade boursin, and rolled up for easy eating.
    • Cole Slaw: cabbage, carrot, pickled ginger, red onion.
    • Deviled Eggs: a new look at fillings for a timeless picnic favorite
    • Marinated olive, pepper and mozzarella salad with herb and garlic dressing

    An ingredients list and recipes will be provided beforehand so you can cook along with the rest of the class.

    Instructor: Laura Ziman

    Laura Ziman is a greatly experienced cooking instructor who hails from New York City, where she grew up eating the plethora of foods available. After graduating from college, she attended cooking school in Paris. On her return to New York, she started her life as a professional cook, which includes years of teaching, catering, owning a restaurant, and food styling for television. More recently she has added teaching and lecturing on topics of food history. Even without a restaurant, she cooks every day.

    $20 Member Adult; $30 Adult (Online Workshop)

    The webinar will be recorded, and a link to the video will be available until September 18, 2023. Register at www.nebg.org

  • Friday, November 18, 10:30 am – 1:00 pm – Botanical Clay Ornaments Workshop

    Students enrolled in New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill’s November 18 workshop will use air dry clay to create mushroom, succulent, and floral ornaments. They will learn to use watercolor paint to custom color their creations. All materials will be provided.

    Instructor Suzanne Hauerstein is a professional teaching artist and the Coordinator of Volunteer & Intern Services at New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill. She has over 25 years of experience designing and facilitating art-based programs for informal learning environments. Suzanne is committed to creating programs that are accessible, positive, and enjoyable learning experiences for students of all ages and abilities. The address is 11 French Drive in Boylston.

    $40 Member Adult; $55 Adult (Registration includes admission to the Garden). To register, visit www.nebg,org

  • Thursday, October 20, 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm – Printmaking: Gelatin Plate Botanical Prints

    Students in this New England Botanic Garden class on October 20 from 1 – 3:30 will use a gelatin printing plate, acrylic paints, botanical materials, and handmade stencils to make beautiful prints. Different stencil making and printmaking techniques will be explored. Prints can be used as greeting cards, bookmarks, gifts tags, for scrapbooking/art papers, or as works of art on their own. Participants will go home with a stack of prints and a gelatin printing plate to continue printing at home. All materials provided.

    Suzanne Hauerstein is a professional teaching artist and the Coordinator of Volunteer & Intern Services at New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill. She has over 25 years of experience designing and facilitating art-based programs for informal learning environments. Suzanne is committed to creating programs that are accessible, positive, and enjoyable learning experiences for students of all ages and abilities.

    $40 Member Adult; $55 Adult (Registration includes admission to the Garden) All materials will be provided. Register at www.nebg.org

  • Saturday, September 10, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm – Winterizing Your Roses

    Roses are a classic plant that can brighten up any garden or home. In this September 10 New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill program, Teresa Mosher provides tips for choosing hardy roses, fertilizing, rose dormancy, fall rose care, and winter protection. Photos from her locally revered Zone 5 garden in Methuen are incorporated into the PowerPoint presentation. Each participant will take home a signed copy of Teresa’s book A Year in my Rose Garden. filled with very helpful rose caring information, photos, information on ordering roses, a list of tools and supplies, her favorite books to read, rose terms, favorite roses and much more.

    Teresa Mosher is one of the leading garden and rose consultants in New England. She has over 30 years of experience as an avid gardener and cares for forty flower beds, 250+ roses, and over 2000 perennials, shrubs and trees in her garden. She is currently president of the New England Rose Society, a Horticulture Rose Judge, and Consulting Rosarian for the American Rose Society.

    $35 Member Adult; $50 Adult (Registration includes admission to the Garden) Register HERE.

  • Sunday, August 14, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm – Mushrooming Beyond the Basics

    On August 14 from 9:30 – 12:30, go a little further and learn about some medicinal mushrooms, and more about mushroom features and methods of identification. Our talk, with visuals, will cover additional types of mushrooms to take you further on your mushrooming journey. Afterwards, we will go out on the New England Botanic Garden trails to find some wild mushrooms! 

    Wear good walking footwear, insect repellant, and bring a cloth or paper bag or basket. Rachel will also have wild-foraged mushroom tincture, wild herbal salve for poison ivy and eczema, wildflower jelly, natural lotions and other wild-crafted goods for purchase before and after the lecture.

    Rachel Goclawski is a Massachusetts Certified Educator and is State-Certified in Mushrooming, Programming Partner with the Museum of Natural History, Sudbury Valley Trustees, Girl Scouts of MA and is the Resident Naturalist at Waters Farm Preservation in Sutton. Rachel is a Contributing Writer for the Cook’s Magazine and for her “day job,” she is an IT Specialist for the Dept. of Defense.

    $55 Member Adult; $70 Adult (Registration includes admission to the New England Botanical Garden at Tower Hill) Register at www.nebg.org