Educational Workshops
Upcoming Workshops
Dead Plant Society
Little Chefs
We believe anyone can garden! The Dead Plant Society offers seasonal workshops to get you growing. You can expect to get your hands dirty practicing garden skills like composting, transplanting and seed saving. Workshops are offered February through November each year and suited for adult-learners.
We believe in seed to table education! This series of parent-child cooking workshops aims to improve family meal time through hands-on and tasty activities. Come and harvest farm fresh, seasonal produce, learn a new recipe and cook it together. A registered pediatric dietician will also be available to answer any nutrition questions you might have.
Dead Plant Society: October
Saturday October 5th
10:00 - 12:00 pm
$30 Adults
$10 children
Preserving the Harvest: Jams & Jellies
The first frost of the season means harvesting all of the garden's goodness and turning it into tasty jams, pickles and other preserved foods. This workshop will focus on jams and jellies using Urban Roots farm fresh peaches and the ins and outs of water bath canning. Master Food Preserver, Doreen Spires will lead this workshop and share her tips and tricks for how to best preserve the season. Each participant will go home with their own hand-made peach jam, and one lucky Dead Plant Society raffle winner will take home a full canning set up!
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Funded by the Inflation Reduction Act and the USDA Forest Service
Dead Plant Society: November
Garlic Planting & Pickling
Late fall is the time for planting garlic in our region! Garlic is easy to grow and special because it's one of the first plants to sprout in the spring. This workshop will focus on which varieties grow well here, how to plant, care for and dry garlic through its whole life cycle, AND we will even quick pickle a jar of cloves to take home. Katie Colling and Cindy Gallimore from Soil Solidarity will teach this workshop and share knowledge on healthy soils, planting garlic and building community through gardening. Each participant will go home with their own pickled garlic and garlic to plant. One lucky Dead Plant Society raffle winner will take home a special garden tool!
Saturday November 9th
10:00 - 12:00 pm
$25 Adults
$10 children
Little Chefs: PreK & 5-13 years
Saturday September 21st
Saturday October 26th
Saturday November 16th
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*All classes from 10:00 -12:30 pm
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$35 per child
Little Chefs is our parent-child cooking series hosted by Urban Roots and registered dietitian Anastasia Gavrilets. This Fall's series is for pre-K chefs (ages 2-4 years) and ages 5-13 years on the same Saturday! We will split into age appropriate groups on the day of. These workshops are hands-on, include a tasty recipe and snack, and a farm fresh ingredient to take home.
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September 21st: CHOP, Slice & Dice: Pizza Party
​Let's level up your little chef's skills in the kitchen! In this workshop we'll dive right into knife skills by making farm fresh personal pizzas in our wood fired oven. Registered dietitian Anastasia and Urban Roots staff will be your sous chefs as your child thrives in the kitchen. All Little Chefs will take home seeds to get growing at home, and a farm ingredient they harvest themselves.​
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October 26th: Veggies are the STAR: Pumpkin Gnocchi
Adding (enough) vegetables into our meals can be tricky for all of us! In this workshop your little chef will be encouraged to try new (flavors and make homemade pumpkin pasta). Registered dietitian Anastasia and Urban Roots (sous chefs) will share helpful tips and tricks for adding and introducing new foods to even the pickiest eater! All Little Chefs will take home seeds to get growing at home, and a miniature pumpkin!
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November 16th: BAKE it til you MAKE it: Honey Farm Cake
Your Little Chef will become Star Baker in this month’s workshop! We’ll explore measuring ingredients and following a recipe while we bake delicious (mini or cup)cakes using Urban Roots bees' honey.
Registered dietitian Anastasia and Urban Roots (sous chefs) will share and guide you through this new classic recipe, offering helpful tips for baking with young learners. All Little Chefs will take home seeds to get growing at home, and a farm ingredient they harvest themselves.
