Event

Date: Sunday, May 14th

Time: 1 – 3pm

$80/pp

SilkBandana

Join us on the farm with Rebecca Kelly to bundle dye a luxurious silk charmeuse bandana. We will use flowers, kitchen produce and herbs to dye the silk! Your scarf will make a gorgeous present for you or a loved one!
We will sip lavender lemonade and munch on divine lavender shortbread cookies as our fabric brews!
Participants will forest bathe and forage on the farm for materials for your own personal future dye experiments.
Resources and bibliography will be shared to all participants.
Light rain, please bring umbrellas and rain gear. We will reschedule if there are heavy rains.
Ages 16 –  Adult. This is a terrific workshop for family members to enjoy together!

 

 

Rebecca Kelly is a curator, storyteller, natural dyer, book and textile artist and weaves her art forms together to make new forms like innovative book arts, embroidered, knitted and crocheted artwork and natural ink paintings. Her textile work was featured in the 2021 Hunterdon Art Museum Member Exhibition. She is a teaching artist at Lehigh University Art Galleries and Young Audiences. Rebecca curated the award-winning Bucks County Community Artmobile, transFORMations: Art Made from Recycled and Reused Materials which was viewed by over 40,000 individuals! Rebecca recently moved to Bucks County from East Harlem NY, where she pursued natural dye in depth at the Textile Art Center and the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. When not teaching, Rebecca is happily foraging on the towpath with her four grandchildren!

Date: Saturday, June 10th

Time: 1pm – 3pm

$50/pp

Kitchen Medicine

 

Did you know that taking a dropper of sage tincture before bed lessens night sweats? Or that it can aid bleeding gums and soothe a sore throat? Come explore all the benefits Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme want to share with us! These glorious culinary herbs not only add to our kitchen creations but they deliver power plant medicine to our mind and body. During this workshop you will harvest and create a sage tincture and a rosemary hair tonic.  You will learn how to infuse oils for culinary and topical uses. You will leave with a wealth of recipes to continue exploring in your own kitchen. Join us for a fun and aromatic afternoon.

April Morecraft is a mother, teacher, gardener, and creator of a home based, small batch herb business called Oak Root Herbals. She began her studies 4 years ago by taking a farm based herbal foundations course with Linda Shanahan of Bluestem Botanicals. April has just completed a 3-year apprenticeship with herbalist, author and green witch, Robin Rose Bennet of Wise Woman Ways and is currently studying herbal astrology online with Sajah Poham of The School of Evolutionary Herbalism.

She looks forward to sharing plant medicine and magic with you. 

Date: Saturday, June 17th

Times: 10am – 12noon

1pm – 3pm

$150 pp

Wreath Workshop

At the height of bloom of our English lavender, join Nicole of Spadaflora Botanical Artistry to make a wreath from an abundance of freshly harvested Hidcote lavender.

As a part of our workshop, you will pick some lavender right out of the field. It takes a LOT of lavender to create this, and so the lion’s share of it will be fresh cut and ready for you to fashion into your wreath. There is nothing like the color and scent of fresh lavender and it will dry beautifully, lasting well into the next year. Nicole will guide you to adhere it properly and distribute it nicely around your 12inch wreath support.

Lavender lemonade and lavender shortbread cookies will be served to nibble and sip.

Be sure to take the time to enjoy a stroll around the farm. It is the most beautiful time of year!

This workshop is limited to 8 attendees. In the event of rain, the workshop will be held in our new renovated Workshop Space.

 

Nicole Spadafora is a ghost, driving a meat covered skeleton, made from stardust, riding through space; who on a good day fears nothing. She is the proprietor of Spada Flora Botanical Artistry, a design company which is rooted in all things in all things floral & botanical – from designing and implementing native gardens, foraging, farming flowers and herbs to flowering weddings and holy-days.

Her guiding principal is; “There is only two ways to live your life: one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle” Albert Einstein.

Date: July 8th

Time: 10am – 12noon

Date: July 9th

Time: 1pm – 3pm

$170 pp

Wreath Workshop

At the height of bloom of our French lavender, join Nicole of Spadaflora Botanical Artistry to make a wreath from freshly harvested Phenomenal long-stemmed lavender. The bloom time of this lavender is within 2 weeks, and this is a very special opportunity that only comes once a year.

As a part of our workshop, you will pick some lavender right out of the field. It takes a LOT of lavender to create this, and so the lion’s share of it will be fresh cut and ready for you to fashion into your wreath. There is nothing like the color and scent of fresh lavender and it will dry beautifully, lasting well into the next year. Nicole will guide you to adhere it properly and distribute it nicely around your 14inch wreath support.

Lavender lemonade and lavender shortbread cookies will be served to nibble and sip.

Be sure to take the time to enjoy a stroll around the farm. It is the most beautiful time of year!

This workshop is limited to 8 attendees. In the event of rain, the workshop will be held in our newly renovated Workshop Space.

 

Nicole Spadafora is a ghost, driving a meat covered skeleton, made from stardust, riding through space; who on a good day fears nothing. She is the proprietor of Spada Flora Botanical Artistry, a design company which is rooted in all things in all things floral & botanical – from designing and implementing native gardens, foraging, farming flowers and herbs to flowering weddings and holy-days.

Her guiding principal is; “There is only two ways to live your life: one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle” Albert Einstein.

 

Date: Saturday, July 8th

Time: 1pm – 3pm

Tickets $65

Mushroom Cultivation

 

Are you interested in learning more about mushrooms? Join mushroom cultivator and forager Kacy Binz in a fun and hands-on mushroom cultivation workshop! Kacy will walk you through each step of the growing process, from mycelium to mushroom. She will lead the group in an inoculation of blue oyster mushrooms, and you will leave with your own at home mushroom growing kit! You will also learn about the phenomenal health benefits of mushrooms as well as some tasty recipes to introduce wild mushrooms more into your diet. She will also have some tips and advice for those interested in wild foraging.

Mushroom snacks and tea will be provided, as well as print outs of all the information. 

 

Kacy has experience growing a wide variety of delectable mushrooms, such as lions mane, oysters, piopinno, white beech, chestnut, nameko and more.  She also enjoys foraging for wild mushrooms and plants, as well as making tea blends and tinctures. Her goal is to inspire people to incorporate more mushrooms into their diet, to become more connected with nature and our source of food, and to make delicious and creative recipes using mushrooms!