Garden Classes NYC: Best Classes & Workshops

Monday Oct 9th, 1–4pm Eastern Time

$20

Belmont Lake State Park (Teens/Adults)

"Wildman" Steve Brill @ 625 Belmont Ave, North Babylon, NY 11704

With woodland trails, a lake, and recreation areas, this is a great place for wild foods in late fall. Some fruits are good to eat in late fall. Autumn Olive Berries At this time of the year, we’ll be enjoying the sweet-tart autumn olive berries, which grow in unlimited quantity near the entrance to the parking lot. These red, spherical, spotted berries are as easy to recognize as they are tasty. Sassafras Leaves Cold-weather...

Sep 30th

1:30–4pm EDT

Oct 29th

1–3:30pm EDT

Saturday Sep 30th, 1:30–4pm Eastern Time

$20

Bonsai

RESOBOX @ 91 East 3rd St, New York, NY 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 taught by Bonsai Master Julian Velasco. Learn the artistic, philosophical, horticultural, and technical...

Sep 24th

11am–1pm EDT

$120

5 Seats Left

Sunday Sep 24th, 11am–1pm Eastern Time

$120

+1200 pts

Saxon Woods (Teens/Adults)

"Wildman" Steve Brill @ Saxon Woods Park Parking lot, White Plains, NY 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 habitats, and it's even more common invasive relative, garlic mustard, is taking over the forest....

Sep 23rd

1:30–4:30pm EDT

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Saturday Sep 23rd, 1:30–4:30pm Eastern Time

$20

Belmont Lake State Park (Kids 12 & Under)

"Wildman" Steve Brill @ 625 Belmont Ave, North Babylon, NY 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. Wild greens will be thriving in sunny areas and along trail edges. We'll be looking for chickweed,...

Sep 30th

1:30–4:30pm EDT

Sep 30th

1:30–4:30pm EDT

Oct 29th

1–3:30pm EDT

Oct 29th

1–3:30pm EDT

Saturday Sep 30th, 1:30–4:30pm Eastern Time

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Prospect Park (Teens/Adults)

"Wildman" Steve Brill @ Prospect Park - Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY 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 marinate and bake it, to make "Wildman's" Vegan Beef Jerky! The root of sassafras, which makes tea...

Sep 24th

11:45am–3:45pm EDT

29 Seats Left

Oct 7th

1:30–4:30pm EDT

31 Seats Left

Oct 15th

11:45am–3:45pm EDT

30 Seats Left

Oct 28th

11:45am–3:45pm EDT

Nov 12th

11:45am–3:45pm EDT

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Sunday Sep 24th, 11:45am–3:45pm Eastern Time

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$20

Central Park (Teens/Adults)

"Wildman" Steve Brill @ 5th Ave & E 106th St, New York, NY 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, and lemony sheep sorrel thrives in sunny places. Offset their flavors in a salad with milder-tasting...

Oct 8th

11:45am–3:45pm EDT

Oct 22nd

11:45am–3:45pm EDT

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Nov 11th

11:45am–3:45pm EDT

Dec 3rd

11:45am–3:45pm EDT

Sunday Oct 8th, 11:45am–3:45pm Eastern Time

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Central Park (Kids 12 & Under)

"Wildman" Steve Brill @ 5th Ave & E 106th St, New York, NY 10029

Central Park provides a great window into the world of wild foods in early spring. Making a meal with these plants is simple at this time of the year. For an appetizer, try simmering field garlic bulbs in diluted vinegar with Italian seasonings, to make an outstanding pickle. It's the peak of the season for wild salad greens, and we'll be finding large quantities of leafy, green ingredients. Spicy mustard greens, such as garlicky garlic mustard,...

Oct 8th

11:45am–3:45pm EDT

Oct 8th

11:45am–3:45pm EDT

Oct 22nd

11:45am–3:45pm EDT

Oct 22nd

11:45am–3:45pm EDT

Nov 11th

11:45am–3:45pm EDT

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Sunken Meadow State Park (Kids 12 & Under)

"Wildman" Steve Brill @ Sunken Meadow Park - Kings Park, LI, Kings Park, NY 11754

This is an outstanding park for foragers in mid-summer. We'll explore cultivated areas, the seashore, and woods, all in one day. The most spectacular find in this park grows within sight of the ocean. Dozens of blackberry bushes in nearby thickets provide thousands of exquisitely delicious berries. Smaller than their commercial counterparts, and more seedy, they taste so much better, they'll make you forget all about your iPhone! This won't...

Nov 18th

1–4pm EDT

Nov 18th

1–4pm EDT

Saturday Nov 18th, 1–4pm Eastern Time

$10

Downtown Brooklyn Pizza Walk

Scott's Pizza Tours @ Boerum Hill / , Brooklyn, NY 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, in-depth pizza analysis, and everybody gets a take-home Pocket Pizza Journal to help track their...

Sep 23rd

11:45am–2:15pm EDT

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Sep 30th

11:45am–2:15pm EDT

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Oct 7th

11:45am–2:15pm EDT

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Oct 14th

11:45am–2:15pm EDT

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Oct 21st

11:45am–2:15pm EDT

6 Seats Left

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Saturday Sep 23rd, 11:45am–2:15pm Eastern Time

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$65

+650 pts

Forest Park (Kids 12 & Under)

"Wildman" Steve Brill @ 8040 Park Lane, Queens, NY 11415

Forest Park is one of the best places for foragers in mid-spring. Get lost in this vast park, and you'll have plenty to eat (that is, if you can distinguish the gourmet plants from the deadly ones.) It boasts a large, mature, secondary growth forest, trail edges, thickets, and cultivated areas—all overflowing with wild plants, and Violet Brill, America's go-to gal for foraging, will teach you how to identify, harvest ecologically, and use dozens...

Oct 14th

11:45am–3:45pm EDT

Oct 14th

11:45am–3:45pm EDT

Nov 5th

11:45am–3:45pm EDT

Nov 5th

11:45am–3:45pm EDT

Saturday Oct 14th, 11:45am–3:45pm Eastern Time

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Forest Park (Teens/Adults)

"Wildman" Steve Brill @ 8040 Park Lane, Queens, NY 11415

This is one of the best places in the world for fall foraging, with a wide selection of wild herbs, greens, roots, nuts, and mushrooms, even in late fall. Habitats include miles of mature forest, as well as the trail edges and the disturbed, overgrown, and cultivated habitats, all providing homes for many diverse, renewable species. Before we even enter the park, we'll stop at a row of ginkgo trees across the street from the meeting spot. A relic...

Oct 14th

11:45am–3:45pm EDT

30 Seats Left

Nov 5th

11:45am–3:45pm EDT

Saturday Oct 14th, 11:45am–3:45pm Eastern Time

$20

Inwood Hill Park (Kids 12 & Under)

"Wildman" Steve Brill @ Anne Loftus Playground, New York, NY 10040

Inwood Hill Park is one of the best places for foraging in late fall. The city's hilliest park, with a large, mature forest, meadows, thickets, and cultivated areas, it's loaded with wild plants, even in late fall. This is the time to search for roots. Here are some we'll be finding: Burdock, an invasive, Eurasian, expensive, detoxifying herb sold in health food stores, abounds in human-disturbed areas throughout the park. Scrub the root, slice...

Oct 1st

11:45am–3:45pm EDT

Oct 1st

11:45am–3:45pm EDT

Nov 4th

11:45am–3:45pm EDT

Nov 4th

11:45am–3:45pm EDT

Nov 26th

11:45am–3:45pm EDT

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Sunday Oct 1st, 11:45am–3:45pm Eastern Time

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IMMUNE SUPPORT Naturally!

Remedies Herb Shop @ 453 Court St, Brooklyn, NY 11231

With NYC based herbalist JoAnne Richards, we will share practical ideas and natural herbal remedies to prevent and relieve symptoms of common colds and flu, and support your body's innate immune response. Bring a notebook and a pen.

Sep 28th

7–8:30pm EDT

$40

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Oct 1st

10–11:30am EDT

$40

6 Seats Left

Thursday Sep 28th, 7–8:30pm Eastern Time

$40