Events: Courses and Workshops

Growing Green

Growing Green

Presented by the Rockland Community Garden, in partnership with the City of Rockland, Growing Green: Gardening & Sustainability Fair is a fundraising and community-building event that seeks to blend a passion for gardening, nature, and sustainable living into one annual event packed full of vendors, community groups, educational seminars, and hands-on workshops.  This year’s event…

Botanical Mixed Media: Transform Your Garden Photos into Paintings

Botanical Mixed Media: Transform Your Garden Photos into Paintings

Explore your creativity with a three-part mixed-media painting workshop! Capture the beauty of nature and turn it into a work of art in this beginner-friendly course at the Toronto Botanical Garden. Using your own photos of flowers and plants from the gardens or your home, you’ll explore how to transform simple images into vibrant mixed-media…

Notes on a Japanese Garden

Notes on a Japanese Garden

“In a Japanese-themed garden, a small space holds big ideas about designing with plants, stone, water and “ma”, the all-important space in between. Part garden travelogue, part gardening experiment, this lecture aims to inspire.”   This is the fifth and last in a series of five lectures being presented by the Friends of the Central…

Sowing the Inspired Garden

Sowing the Inspired Garden

“Advice on seasonal gardening tasks such as sowing from seed, dividing perennials, trimming and clean-up. Tasks that will inspire garden splendour and good health.”   This is the fourth in a series of five lectures being presented by the Friends of the Central Experimental Farm and the Master Gardeners of Ottawa Carleton in 2025 to offer timely and informative…

Door Swag Workshop

Door Swag Workshop

Date: November 23rd, 2024 Time: 10:00am Maximum Spots: 20   —– Make and take home a Door Swag with expert gardener; Don Lewis at our Richmond location at 5901 Ottawa St. Richmond . Celebrate the holiday cheer as he guides you through creating a Door Swag.  Don will also arm you with the knowledge to…