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  • Wednesday, February 26, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Eastern – Detoxing Your Home, Online

    The New York Botanic Garden is offering an online talk with Cheryl Paswater on Wednesday, February 26 at 6:30 pm. Environmental toxicity stresses our immune systems and makes us more prone to allergies. Consider what changes you can make to your home to make it a safer place for you and your loved ones-from simple but essential product swaps to certain chemicals to avoid altogether. We’ll cover dryer sheets, body products, water systems, and more.

    Cheryl Paswater is a fermentationist, educator, health coach, artist, beekeeper, and writer. After a near-death experience, she turned to holistic medicine for help. Radical diet and lifestyle changes led her deepinto the study of fermentation, old world food preservation, the humanmicrobiome, food ethics, and holistic health. Cheryl runs a popular fermentation project called Contraband Ferments, contributes as a writer for Edible Brooklyn, has guest co-hosted on Heritage Food RadioNetwork’s Fuhmentaboudit!, co-organizes the NYC Fermentation Festival, and is a co-organizer of the NYC Ferments Meetup. She is currently working on her first book while teaching workshops at festivals both regionally and internationally, and lives in Brooklyn, NY, with all of her cultures as pets (a.k.a. bacteria, yeast, and mold).

    $45 for NYBG members, $49 for nonmembers. Register at www.nybg.org

  • Tuesday, February 4, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Eastern – Plant Propagation for the Home Gardener, Online

    Discover how to reproduce the plants you love. The New York Botanic Garden will hold an online session February 4 at 6 pm with Jennifer Cappello-Ruggiero. Learn the best ways to create cuttings and make divisions for propagating different species. We’ll discuss what rooting material to use and how to care for your new plants as they grow. Practice repotting and take home a freshly planted cutting or two. NYBG members $55, nonmembers $59. Register at www.nybg.org.

  • Wednesdays, February 5 – February 19, 11:00 am – 2:30 pm Eastern – Practical Aspects of Botanical Art, Online

    Whether or not you decide to pursue botanical art as a business, knowing standard practices will be useful. Over the course of this New York Botanic Garden online class, you’ll learn the basics of dealing with galleries and artists’ reps, including; pricing, contracts and sales agreements, how/when to sell certain rights, how to market your work (best options for promotional printing such as business cards, exhibition postcards, booklets will be covered) and how to develop and license products. To round out the concepts, you’ll learn how to prepare for an exhibition or develop your own one-person show. Carol Woodin will lead. Waitlist available. Click HERE to add your name.

  • Saturday, October 26, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Eastern – Houseplant Design Workshop, Online

    Do you prefer simple and clean or wild and lush? Whatever your preference, learn to use basic principles of repetition, symmetry, and color theory to blend your beloved collection of houseplants into a unified design. We’ll discuss a broad palette of plants, how to mix and match them, and how to select the best pots or shelves to complement your decor. Walk away with a unique potted houseplant. Price includes a $30 materials fee. This New York Botanic Garden online workshop takes place October 26 from 10 – 1 online, and is taught by Daryl Beyers. NYBG members $130, nonmembers $140. Register HERE.

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  • Sunday, October 6, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Eastern – Styling Flowers for Photography, Online

    Professional prop stylist Robin Zachary shares creative ways to style and photograph your finished floral arrangements for use on your website, portfolio, and/or social media accounts. Learn how to design a set with a variety of backdrops and props in different styles and discover tips on how to find the optimal spots to capture these photos in your home or studio.

    Please be advised that this New York Botanic Garden class is focused on photography and styling. As such, participants will not be creating floral arrangements. The class will be held online, and is $65 for NYBG members, $70 for nonmembers. Register at www.nybg.org

  • Thursday, November 9, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Eastern – Seeds of Resilience: The Cultural Dimension of Plant Biodiversity, Online

    Explore stories from the Indigenous Land and Seed Sovereignty movement, which embodies the vision of sustainable relational agriculture and shares the depth of the cultural dimension of plant biodiversity in North America.

    Mohawk Seedkeeper Rowen White will share insight into the collective vision of intercultural healing that emerges when we center Indigenous leadership, ecological knowledge, cultural memory, and sovereignty of living in relationship with the inheritance of land, seeds, and other non-human kin. She’ll share her personal experience at the Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance to paint an uplifting picture of cultural and climate sanity for the regenerative land stewardship movement in these times of great transformation.

    This lecture on November 9 at 6 pm, online, is part of NYBG’s celebration of Native American Heritage Month. $35 for NYBG members, $39 for nonmembers. Register HERE

  • Mondays, October 16 – November 27 (excluding November 20), 11:00 am – 2:00 pm Eastern – Pen and Ink, Online

    Pen and ink, among the most versatile and useful media, can be used to create high quality, easily reproducible drawings. Learn how to produce different strokes and how to create tone by using stipple, line, and crosshatch techniques. Carol Ann Morley will present a six part class, online, for the New York Botanic Garden Prerequisite: Botanical Drawing II or equivalent. Please note, this course requires the purchase of materials. Please refer to the materials list on the registration page for more information. NYBG members $460, nonmembers $505. Click HERE for complete schedule and information.

  • Saturday, November 12, 10:00 am – 3:30 pm – Seasonal Woodland Scene

    A very special art class will take place at Hollister House Garden, 300 Nettleton Hollow Road in Washington, Connecticut, on November 12 at 10 am. Create a “gift from the heart” with this simple woodland watercolor scene, just in time for gift-giving or a holiday card! All skill levels welcome in this workshop filled with step-by-step demonstrations of a variety of fun watercolor techniques and plenty of individual instruction.

    The watercolor workshops at Hollister House Garden are taught by Betsy Rogers-Knox. Betsy received a Certificate in Botanical Illustration from NYBG in 2006. Her work has been widely exhibited in the United States and at the Royal Horticultural Botanical Art Show in London where she was awarded the Silver Gilt Award.

    Open to all skill levels. Materials List. Hollister House Garden Members $95 Non-Members $120 Register HERE.

  • Monday, April 13, 10:00 am – Backyard Foraging

    Backyard Foraging presented by Ellen Zachos, master forager, author, NY Botanic Garden teacher, will take place at Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive in Boylston, on Monday, April 13, beginning at 10 am as part of the  Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts Horticultural Morning series.

    Spiderwort, spruce, daisies and sedums – what do these backyard favorites have in common? They are deliciously edible! You only need to step outside your door to forage edible plants. A dynamic teacher, Ellen will teach us which backyard ornamentals are edible and how to recognize plants we should never eat.

    Cost: $5 donation (GCFM members), $10 at the door (guests)
    Contact: Betsy Williams Chairman 978-470-0911 or betsy@betsywilliams.com