Wed, Jul 13
6:00pm - 9:00pm Eastern Time
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at New York Botanical Garden - Midtown 20 W 44th St, New York, New York 10036
Gain an introduction to the terminology, concepts, and basic principles of landscape design through lectures and simple two-dimensional exercises. This course is recommended for students with little or no background in design who want to design for their own home or who are considering a Certificate.
Gain an introduction to the terminology, concepts,...
Read moreWednesday Jul 13th, 6pm - 9pm Eastern Time
(3 sessions)at Scott's Pizza Tours - Boerum Hill Boerum Hill / Meeting place to be provided thru email, Brooklyn, New York 11201
Trace the history of pizza by visiting a mix of wood-fired Neapolitan, coal-fired, and classic New York slice joints on this 2.5 hour walking tour. You'll hit a spread of neighborhoods including Boerum Hill. Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn Heights, and the Columbia Waterfront district. What's Included All tours include pizza tastings, kitchen tours,...
Trace the history of pizza by visiting a mix of wood-fired...
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11:45am - 2:15pm Eastern Time
Sat, Jul 9
11:45am - 2:15pm Eastern Time
Sat, Jul 16
11:45am - 2:15pm Eastern Time
Sat, Jul 23
11:45am - 2:15pm Eastern Time
Sat, Jul 30
11:45am - 2:15pm Eastern Time
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Saturday Jul 2nd, 11:45am - 2:15pm Eastern Time
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at New York Botanical Garden - Midtown 20 W 44th St, New York, New York 10036
Designed for students who want a user–friendly introduction to plant science, this course surveys the major groups of plants—flowering plants, conifers, ferns, and bryophytes—focusing on plant form and structure. Learn about the relationships between appearance and function, ecology, systematics, and evolution, and become botanically literate....
Designed for students who want a user–friendly introduction...
Read moreTuesday Jul 12th, 6pm - 8:15pm Eastern Time
(8 sessions)at New York Botanical Garden - Bronx 2900 Southern Blvd, Bronx, New York 10458
Delicate and feathery or tall and structural, ferns are the perfect choice to make shady, moist pockets of your garden come alive. In a lushly illustrated talk combined with walks on Garden grounds, Mobee Weinstein—NYBG Foreman of Gardeners for Outdoor Gardens and author of The Complete Book of Ferns—will introduce you to the wide variety of fern...
Delicate and feathery or tall and structural, ferns...
Read moreSaturday Jul 16th, 9am - 11am Eastern Time
(3 sessions)at New York Botanical Garden - NYBG Bronx 2950 Southern Blvd, Bronx, New York 10458
In just three weeks, complete more than 40% of the coursework required for the Certificate and gain a solid base in the principles of environmentally sound gardening from expert professionals. You'll also see how these principles are put into practice through curator-led tours of various Garden collections. The Classes: Fundamentals of Gardening...
In just three weeks, complete more than 40% of the...
Read moreMonday Jul 11th, 9am - 4pm Eastern Time
(15 sessions)at "Wildman" Steve Brill - Central Park 5th Ave & E 106th St, New York, New York 10029
Central Park provides a great window into the world of wild foods of mid-spring. It's the peak of the season for wild salad greens, and we'll be finding great quantities of renewable ingredients: Spicy mustard greens, such as garlicky garlic mustard, hot hedge mustard, and even hotter poor man's pepper, will abound on lawns or under trees anywhere,...
Central Park provides a great window into the world...
Read moreSaturday Jul 16th, 11:45am - 3:45pm Eastern Time
at "Wildman" Steve Brill - Brooklyn Prospect Park - Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York 11238
A great abundance of edible and medicinal wild plants and mushrooms makes this park a great place for edible and medicinal plants and mushrooms in late summer. Burdock, an expensive detoxifying herb sold in health food stores, abounds in cultivated areas throughout the park. You can also use this invasive species as a superb root vegetable, or even...
A great abundance of edible and medicinal wild plants...
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11:45am - 3:45pm Eastern Time
Sun, Jul 24
11:45am - 3:45pm Eastern Time
Sun, Aug 7
11:45am - 3:45pm Eastern Time
Sat, Aug 20
11:45am - 3:45pm Eastern Time
Mon, Sep 5
11:45am - 3:45pm Eastern Time
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Sunday Jul 10th, 11:45am - 3:45pm Eastern Time
at New York Botanical Garden -
This blended class meets online for some sessions and on NYBG grounds for others. Registered students will receive login instructions and a syllabus with specifics. Plants surround us in a profusion of forms. But in naturally occurring landscapes, these combinations are far from random, and are often dictated by complex factors, which limit or encourage...
This blended class meets online for some sessions...
Read moreWednesday Sep 14th, 6pm - 7:30pm Eastern Time
(3 sessions)at RESOBOX - East Village 91 East 3rd St, New York, New York 10003
Bonsai is the ancient Japanese art form of miniature trees in containers. It is an art form that helps connect us to nature. Through this process, it strengthens our spirit. This is why Bonsai can be a figurative mirror image of the grower. With an open heart and mind, students can start their own journey of personal growth through the art of...
Bonsai is the ancient Japanese art form of miniature...
Read moreSunday Jul 31st, 11am - 1pm Eastern Time
at "Wildman" Steve Brill - Suffolk County 625 Belmont Ave Front of bldg with concession stand, North Babylon, New York 11704
With a lakeside, cultivated areas, picnic grounds, and woods, Belmont Lake State Park is a great place for wild foods in late winter, and everything the group will be finding is renewable. The plants repeatedly get trimmed down by lawn mowers, but they’re adapted to defend themselves by regeneration. Many of the foreign plants here are also invasive. ...
With a lakeside, cultivated areas, picnic grounds,...
Read moreSunday Jul 3rd, 11:30am - 2:30pm Eastern Time
at "Wildman" Steve Brill - White Plains Saxon Woods Park Parking lot 1800 Mamaroneck Ave, White Plains, New York 10605
The sunny borders between woodlands and the parking lot provide prime habitat for various wild herbs and greens. We'll look for sheep sorrel and wood sorrel, with their wonderful lemony flavors, plus goutweed, which tastes like parsley, carrots, and celery. Poor man's pepper, a common, delicious wild mustard, also appears in great abundance in sunny...
The sunny borders between woodlands and the parking...
Read moreSaturday Jul 2nd, 10am - 12:30pm Eastern Time
at Remedies Herb Shop - Prospect Heights Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York 11238
Nature's apothecary is right outside growing in our meadows, woodlands and even our City parks. Summer is one of the most abundant seasons to forage, and discover creative ways to use our native and invasive wild weeds for food and medicine. Join herbalist, Dawn Petter as we discover what wonders are growing beneath our feet. Please dress for the...
Nature's apothecary is right outside growing in our...
Read moreSunday Jul 17th, 10am - 12pm Eastern Time
at Queens Botanical Garden - Flushing 43-50 Main St, Flushing, New York 11355
Make and bring home your own desert environment at this outdoor workshop! Choose from a variety of cacti and succulents to create an open-air succulent terrarium in a ceramic container and learn tips for succulent care. All materials provided. Children must be accompanied by participating adult.
Make and bring home your own desert environment at...
Read moreSaturday Jul 16th, 11am - 1pm Eastern Time
at New York Botanical Garden - Bronx 2900 Southern Blvd, Bronx, New York 10458
Here in NYC, fall is the best time to hunt for edible fungi, including honey, oyster, and hen-of-the woods mushrooms. Paul Sadowski, 25-year veteran of the New York Mycological Society, will show you how to identify many species and their look-alikes, where to find them, and how to cook or preserve them. We'll embark on mushroom hunts together...
Here in NYC, fall is the best time to hunt for edible...
Read moreWednesday Sep 14th, 10am - 1pm Eastern Time
(2 sessions)at "Wildman" Steve Brill - Mamaroneck 685 Weaver St, Larchmont, New York 10538
The 17-year-old foraging expert had been co-leading tours with her dad, "Wildman" Steve Brill, since she was 9. "I'm glad to be rid of her," exclaimed her grumpy father. "She finds all the plants and mushrooms faster than I do, she bosses me around, and she steals all my jokes!" Sheldrake Lake is great for early spring foraging. Right out of the...
The 17-year-old foraging expert had been co-leading...
Read moreSaturday Aug 6th, 11:45am - 2:15pm Eastern Time
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