Family Farmacy: The Fairies are Coming!

The Fairies are Coming! Join us for a day of fairy fun. We will create our Fairy names and design fairy doorways using dried flowers, plants and paint. After we will have a mini frolic in the garden and place our doorways around the grass to welcome in our fairy friends!

Then, we'll make seed balls to bring wildflowers (and fairies love wildflowers) to our own home or special places in the city.

Jam is a queer medicine-making fairy queen. She is eager to help others along their wellness journeys. Jam pays tribute to her elders and ancestors who were earthworkers and utilized the land for sharing and healing.

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Photo courtesey of Jam Mapp. Find out more about Jam's work at https://www.theeveon.com

Food is medicine! Spanning across the Greenhouse Education Center’s learning garden, greenhouse, and kitchen, families are invited to learn the art of gardening, herbalism, and kitchen-skills to support healthy and happy bodies, minds, and hearts. Each week families will be welcomed into this drop-in program to craft their own home remedies, meals, and garden-inspired artworks.

This is a free drop-in program. Come to every class to build on your skill or come to one or two that you are available for.

This workshop will take place in our heated greenhouse and kitchen. Workshops are rain or shine.

When inside the greenhouse and kitchen we will open our double-doors and windows to vent the space and encourage masking and social distancing when in more closed-in spaces.

Accessibility: Our kitchen/classroom space is wheelchair accessible. With prior planning, we can add a few small mats onto the pebbled ground of greenhouse to make a small wheel-chair accessible path. Our learning garden has grass paths, and the entrance is through a gate with a small, raised entrance. Our tables can be lowered/raised, and we have several backless benches or stools. Our kitchen is in regular use, and while we try to cook without peanuts, much of our cookware is shared and we cannot guarantee a nut-free environment. We have a first aid kit, and the closest AED is in another building several yards away. Drinking water is made available in refillable pitchers.

Our closest bathrooms are a building away, about a one-minute walk. A gender neutral bathroom is also available, and this is accessible by key which you can request from staff. We are not a scent-free zone, and because herbalism classes take place here, cannot guarantee that the site will be clear of any essential oil smells. If you have needs not addressed here, please reach out to Mallory Craig at [email protected].

Host or Publisher The Horticultural Society of New York