may 7-8 open garden, and 30-plus events for ‘the workshop experience weekend’
MORE THAN 30 events listed and linked below are part of The Workshop Experience Weekend, scheduled for May 7-8, 2022, in and around Hillsdale, NY. My garden and those of two nearby friends will be open on the 7th as part of this big collaboration with many talented friends and neighbors, including Tiny Hearts Farm (organic flower farmer-florists), with a dahlia class, flower-arranging how-to and more.
Beloved Broken Arrow Nursery will hold a plant sale in my driveway, including the chance to pre-order for pickup on Saturday the 7th at my place.
Other garden- and nature-related headliners: Rebecca McMackin, the celebrated ecological landscape designer who has led the creation of Brooklyn Bridge Park (giving a pollinator-garden talk that is not to be missed); Chris Roddick, longtime head arborist at Brooklyn Botanic Garden (with a tree walk); and Annie Novak of New York Botanical Garden’s Edible Academy (with a soil and composting class). John Michelotti of Catskill Fungi will lead a mushroom walk, and give a growing class, too.
Our organizing group, called the Hillsdale Workshop Alliance, has put together a packed schedule of workshops with experts in crafting, writing, cooking (thanks to nearby HGS Home Chef cooking school and shop), and more–with topics as wide-ranging as dance, yoga, podcasting, blacksmithing, terrariums, weaving…you get the idea! Browse the entire program below, or visit TheWorkshopExperience.org.
Why not get some tickets now and make a day (or weekend) of it?
Saturday May 7
10 AM-4 PM open gardens
Open Garden & Plant Sale at Margaret Roach’s Home
Open Garden at Mark McDonald & Dwayne Resnick’s Home
Open Garden at Peter Bevacqua & Stephen King’s Home
10-11:30 AM
Language of Flowers: Intro to Pollinator Ecology
10 AM-12 noon
Easy Mushroom Growing with John Michelotti
Sheep to Yarn: Intro to Fiber Processing
10 AM-1:30 PM
11-12:30 PM
Movement for the Non-Dancer with Aubrey Lynch II
11 AM-1 PM
Springrolls & Wontons with Chef Kian Lam Kao
11:30-1 PM
Up Jumped Spring: Flower Arranging with Tiny Hearts Farm
1-2:30 PM
Raising Chickens in Your Backyard
Understanding Soils and Composting
1 PM-3:30 PM
1-4 PM
Blacksmithing: Forge Your Own Spoon
2:30-3:30 PM
What the !@#$% is the Metaverse?
2-4PM
Mushroom Walk with Catskill Fungi
Wild Garden & Beekeeping Workshop at Bevacqua-King Home
2:30-4 PM
On-Farm Flower Forum at Tiny Hearts: The Tulip Gambit
All About Trees With Arborist Chris Roddick
3-5 PM
Regarding Cocktails: For The Home Bartender
Sunday May 8
10-11:30 AM
Yoga For Everybody With Dwayne Resnick
10 AM-12:30 PM
10:30 AM-12:30 PM
Learn to Hula-Hoop with Ann Humphreys “The Tao Of Hoop”
11 AM-1 PM
Herb Infused Cooking With Chef Dave Wurth
12-4 PM
Yarn to Cloth: Intro to Weaving
1-2:30 PM
Knitting Democracy Together: Activist Art Knitting
Tending To Honeybees: A Holistic Approach
2-3:30 PM
Say Cheese! Cooking Class with Justin Chapple
