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Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden is an urban botanic garden that aims to connect people to the world of plants, promoting an appreciation for the environment. Through educational programs, research, and garden renewal efforts, the school inspires people of all ages to learn about and conserve plants and plant communities.
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Preserving the Summer Harvest
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Preserving the abundance of your garden and the market while harvests are at their peak ensures that you'll have optimal variety, nutrition, and a lower food carbon footprint come winter. Learn the best and safest ways to can, freeze, lacto-ferment, pickle, dry, salt, and otherwise preserve summer's bounty. Please Note: The Security Guard in the lobby of the Administration Bldg. at 1000 Washington Avenue will direct you to your classroom.
$45
Learn to Make Matcha the Japanese Way
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Want to become a matcha master? Learn how to prepare this delicious and healthy powdered green tea the traditional way. This class will begin with a tea ceremony in the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden, and end with students performing in the ceremony themselves and enjoying matcha on a traditional tatami mat. Note: You must bring your registration confirmation to the Garden for admittance to each class session.
Fruits and Herbs Syrups, Cordials, and Tinctures
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
This series of workshops demonstrates food preservation techniques to create delicious food and beauty products that heal and inspire. Take home your new creations in each workshop. Learn how to use your favorite alcohols, fruits, and herbs to make versatile syrups, cordials, and tinctures for flavor, healing, and fun!
$61
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DIY: All-Natural Cleaning Products
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
This series of workshops demonstrates food preservation techniques to create delicious food and beauty products that heal and inspire. Take home your new creations in each workshop. Learn how to use your favorite alcohols, fruits, and herbs to make versatile syrups, cordials, and tinctures for flavor, healing, and fun!
$61
Garden Apothecary: Custom Cooking and Bath Salts
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
This series of workshops demonstrates food preservation techniques to create delicious food and beauty products that heal and inspire. Take home your new creations in each workshop. Whether you want to create luxurious, relaxing salts for the bath or whip up an aromatic finishing salt for your latest culinary creation, this workshop offers hands-on experience in making custom salts a part of your food and body care experience.
$61
Fall Fermentation
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Fermentation is one of the oldest food processing methods still used today. Scientifically known as zymology, it is the conversion of carbohydrates into alcohols, carbon dioxide, yeast, or bacteria. Beer, miso, sourdough, kefir, kimchi and many other delicious foods we love are the product of fermentation. In this course we will cover the basic science behind some of our favorite ferments, why it’s good for you, and we’ll teach you how to make...
$57
Fermented Condiments
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Learn to make your own fermented ketchup and mustard with Contraband Ferments! Get the history and science behind fermentation, as well as the basic principles to make your own delicious, probiotic-rich condiments. If you're condiment-obsessed like we are, then this is the class for you. Either have materials on hand to create together during class, or simply watch to discover recipes to make on your own. Please click HERE for Materials...
$54
Bring in the Flowers: Flower Centerpiece Workshop
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Join Stems Brooklyn in an off-the-wall centerpiece workshop. We'll guide you through the basics of flower arranging and then break all the rules by teaching you how to work with non-traditional flora to build a showstopping centerpiece. We'll use extremely playful colors and textures, as well as techniques for creating swanky designs to brighten up the beginning of winter. If you've always wanted to be a florist for a day, this is your chance. We'll...
$179
Intermediate Flower Designs
Join this class to learn advanced styles and complicated design mechanics with a variety of fresh flowers. This class, based on lectures, hands-on workshops, and critiques, allows you to be more expressive in your designs. You'll master techniques for parallel designs, vase arrangements, and working without floral foam, among other topics. Pre-requisite: Basic Flower Arranging Are materials provided and included in cost of the class?...
Drawing Early Spring Treasures
The first few weeks of spring bring in a bounty of colorful subjects such as hellebores, snowdrops, pussy willows, and other budding branches. As you refine your drawing skills you will learn about the fascinating botanical structure of these plants. We will use a limited palette of color pencils on toned paper. Notes: Bring your own materials. For Materials List, please CLICK HERE. You will be emailed the Zoom link for this class
Foliage Design and Plant Care
Join this class to discover the wide variety of foliage used in the florist's trade. You will learn to create designs in four categories: Exotic Hardy High style Soft accent Also, you will learn about the care of foliage plants, which can account for up to 50 percent of a retail florist's business. Pre-requisite: Intermediate Flower Arranging Are materials provided and included in cost of the class? No. Please bring your...
Exploring Watercolor Pigments
Like alchemists, students can experiment with ways to enhance watercolor pigment. In the morning, students will experiment with materials such as ox gall, sand, alcohol, silver spoons, egg yolks, and Chinese white. In the afternoon, students will use the experimental materials to create examples of their own. Are materials provided and included in cost of the class?: No. If you have 4-5 watercolor brushes that are old or cheap, please bring...
Creating Natural Pigments: Watercolor Workshop
In this watercolor workshop, we examine pigments gleaned from very familiar plants: marigolds, zinnias, and even the weedy but beautiful inkberry. We will take a close look at dye plants in the Garden and record our impressions and observations in sketchbooks. We willl also experiment with the simplest of dye and color extractions to see what happens as we dye linen and cotton watercolor papers. Everyone will create, in an authentic mode,...
Organic Flower Arranging
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Explore free-form flower arranging without floral foam or traditional frogs. Using romantic blossoms, exotic textures and garden greens, learn the basics of arranging with a natural flare. All florals will be sourced domestically for seasonal beauty. Florals, clippers, vase, and instructions are included. Discussion topics include flower sourcing, arranging techniques, flower care, and what makes a highly organic arrangement feel balanced. Note:...
$126
Painting Fall's Bounty: Drawing and Watercolor
Join this class to explore drawing and watercolor techniques, composition, color, and value. Emphasis will be on seeing and translating your own artistic vision, with individual instruction and critiques. This is an indoor class with the option to paint out in the garden. Are materials provided and included in cost of the class? No. If you already have watercolor supplies, please bring them. This is a suggested list: HB or 2H pencil Plastic...
The Magic Hour: Photography Using Light of Dusk
Join this class to explore ways on how to use the light of dusk using techniques such as selective focus, long exposures, and fill flash. This class is suitable for people comfortable working in the manual or semiautomatic modes of their cameras and want to extend their knowledge. We will be photographing every session, rain or shine. Are materials provided and included in cost of the class? No. Bring your camera-film or digital...
Special Effects with Watercolor
Take inspiration from fall foliage, fruit, and flowers while developing your skills and personal style. Emphasis is on drawing, composition, and understanding color. Traditional watercolor techniques such as dry brush and glazing are demonstrated as well as some experimental approaches in this class. Are materials provided and included in cost of the class? No. If you already own watercolors bring what you have, but make sure they are professional...
Exploring Pastels
Join this class to develop your understanding of color and composition using pastel, an opaque medium that allows layering and building of color much like oil paint. Live plants and other still-life materials are used to focus on new concepts, with plenty of room for individual style. Soft pastels are composed only of pigment and binder in stick form. The proportion of binder or filler to the amount and grade of the pigments determines quality...
From Black and White to Color: Drawing and Color Theory
Join this class and discover why does it often seem like a great leap from drawing to color theory. This class bridges the gap between working in black and white and working in color using structured exercises that explore the concept of value in both. We also approach color theory through color mixing with a limited palette. This class is suitable for students at all levels, and any opaque color medium (pastel, gouache, and acrylic) is allowed. ...
Photography: Unreality of Nature
Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
This is an opportunity to explore nature in abstract forms moving beyond the reality of flowers and trees as we see them with our eyes. Dutch landscape photographer, Gerco de Ruijter asks: How abstract can a landscape become while remaining a landscape? We will try to answer this question as we explore the abstraction of nature in the Garden. Starting with the "real," we will identify and examine different ways of seeing these natural subjects...
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