Skill Building Garden Volunteer Day: Flowers, Herbs, Weeds
The Wyckoff House Museum 5816 Clarendon Road, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesVolunteer in our garden and learn about flowers, herbs, and volunteer plants (aka weeds).
Volunteer in our garden and learn about flowers, herbs, and volunteer plants (aka weeds).
Join the Wyckoff House Museum and Museum Hue for a day of fun, history, and food at the Wyckoff House Museum.
We will cover the basics of natural dyeing processes as well as learn how to make dye baths from spices, dry goods as well as fresh vegetables.
Smell, taste, discuss and make a few simple seasonal ferments with crops grown at the Wyckoff farm.
Volunteer in our garden and learn about growing summer vegetables.
Learn about the apothecary of nature in our Herbal Medicine workshop and demonstration.
Volunteer and learn how to maintain and manage perennial plants and identify common weeds.
Volunteer and learn how to divide and replant bulbs and how to save seeds for next year's garden.
Learn how to felt and spin wool with master spinner, Miranda.
Bring the whole family for a day-long extravaganza of local growing, hands-on homesteading, and creativity that turns the traditional harvest festival on its ear and boasts an array of games, crafts, local food, music, demonstrations, and family-friendly workshops led by local partners.
Come make waffles over an open fire from a traditional Dutch recipe!
Use thread, beads, and string to tell your stories. Learn basic embroidery techniques with Artist-in-Residence, Iviva Olenick.
A traditional celebration of Dutch St. Nicholas Day with a modern twist.