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Camera Phone Photography: Beyond the Snapshot

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

We all have one, and we all take too many pictures! Learn all about the bells and whistles of your camera phone. After a walk in the Garden to take photos, we will return to the class for an in-phone editing demonstration.  Please let registration know what type of phone you have. If you can, download the free version of Photoshop or Lightroom before coming to class. Note: Please bring this confirmation for Garden admission. The Security Guard...

(165) All levels 18 and older
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Grow Your Own Garlic

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Garlic is one of the easiest and most satisfying crops to grow. In this class you will learn everything you need to know to grow great garlic, including preparing your soil, planting, weeding, fertilizing, harvesting, and storing your garlic. We will also sample some garlic! Notes: Please bring this confirmation for Garden admission. The Security Guard in the lobby of the Administration Bldg. at 1000 Washington Avenue will direct you to your cl...

(165) All levels 18 and older
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De-stressing Naturally for the Holiday Season

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

The holidays are exciting but can be imbued with stress, anxiety, and sleep deprivation. Learn how herbal remedies such as skullcap for nervousness, oats for exhaustion, and passionflower for sleep may be just what you need to help you feel in control of your moods, so they don’t control you. Combine high-end tinctures to create boutique blends to take home. 

(165) All levels 18 and older
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Paper Sculpting: A Meditation on Flora and Fauna

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

This class will make you reconsider what you thought you knew about a sheet of paper. Finding inspiration in the flora and fauna of BBG and NYC, we will fold, pinch, tear, and crumple paper to create our own 3-D plant life—while considering positive and negative space as well as light and shadow to create dramatic effects. No art background necessary! Note: Please bring this confirmation for Garden admission. The Security Guard in the lobby...

(165) All levels 18 and older
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Spring Detox with Plant Medicine

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Discover how herbs such as cleavers, burdock, dandelion, mugwort, and more have been used by herbalists to dispel the digestive cobwebs of winter. Learn what herbal alternatives, bitters, and lymphatics are, and which ones will best serve you as you “spring clean” your digestion. Note: You must bring your registration confirmation to the Garden for admittance to each class session.

(165) All levels 18 and older
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Let Your Box Runneth Over with Foliage!

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

A window box filled with flowers can enhance an empty space as long as it blooms, but foliage plants can bring nonstop vivid color and interesting texture to your container. Get step-by-step instructions for planting a dazzling, foliage-packed window box to carry home.  All supplies and plants are provided. Note: You must bring your registration confirmation to the Garden for admittance to each class session. 

(165) All levels 18 and older
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Great Native Plants for Containers

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

With or without a garden, you can invite nature into your yard, patio, or balcony with native plants in containers. Learn the best choices for containers and how to plant and keep them healthy for many years to come. The birds and pollinators like bees and butterflies will thank you.  Note: You must bring your registration confirmation to the Garden for admittance to each class session.

(165) All levels 18 and older
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Cultivating Carnivorous Plants

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Learn the identification, biology, cultivation, and conservation needs of these wonderful plants. There will be feeding demonstrations, and participants will prepare a specialized growth medium and pot up their own carnivore to take home.  Note: You must bring your registration confirmation to the Garden for admittance to each class session.

(165) All levels 18 and older
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Air Plant Ornament Workshop

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Learn how to make fun, living ornaments that hang in mid-air using twine or fishing line! Air plants are tropical in nature, requiring bright, indirect sunlight and weekly soaking. In this hands-on workshop, learn more about these soilless dream plants and how to care for them, and create your own fantastical ornament perfect for your own home or a delightful holiday gift. Notes: Please bring your registration confirmation and a photo ID to...

(165) All levels 18 and older
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Introduction to Nature Writing

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Explore the basics of nature writing in this afternoon seminar. Through close examination of published work and in-class exercises, hone your descriptive powers, injecting vibrancy and lyricism into your prose. Learn how to create work that conveys the physical beauty of the natural world, while also telling a story or making an essayistic argument. Open to fiction and nonfiction authors of any level. Students will be provided a selection of short...

(165) All levels 18 and older
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Grow and Eat Microgreens Year-Round

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Not only are microgreens one of the most nutrient-dense foods, but they are also easy to grow year-round in a city apartment! In this class, learn how to grow these delicious greens, discover beautiful ways to use them, and create your own microgreen garden to take home. Notes: Please bring your registration confirmation and a photo ID to the security desk at the 1000 Washington Avenue entrance, and you will be directed to your classroom. ...

(165) All levels 18 and older
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Grow Mushrooms Indoors

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Learn simple and affordable techniques to grow mushrooms for food, medicine, and fun. Get hands-on and create your own mushroom starter to take home while we explore fascinating fungal intelligence and the potentials of partnering with fungi to build, nourish, heal, and restore. Notes: Please bring your registration confirmation and a photo ID to the security desk at the 1000 Washington Avenue entrance, and you will be directed to your classroom....

(165) All levels 18 and older
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Blooming Botany

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Celebrate the beginning of spring by learning about flowering plant life cycles! This intro-level botany course will include flower and seed dissections, germination experiments, sowing some annual flower seeds to take home, and a walk through the Garden to observe the earliest BBG blooms. Notes: Please bring your registration confirmation and a photo ID to the security desk at the 1000 Washington Avenue entrance, and you will be directed to...

(165) All levels 18 and older
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Intro to Houseplants and Succulents

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Did you know succulents breathe through their stomata at night and other houseplants typically during the day? This water-conserving process is called crassulacean acid metabolism.  Join us as we discuss the structural differences between succulents and other houseplants, how their needs differ, and how to propagate them. After potting up together, leave with two plants of your own. Notes: This class meets in person, outdoors at BBG....

(165) Beginner 18 and older
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Herbal Salves and Creams for Natural Skincare

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Winter weather and its cooling dry seasonal air can leave skin feeling dehydrated and lacking moisture. In this class you will learn which herbs can give you a winter glow and leave you feeling replenished and ready for the elements. We'll discuss how to make herbal oils with hydrating and skin nourishing herbs, as well as how to use these herbs in balms, creams, baths and more. Notes: Please note that this class meets in person at BBG. Instructions...

(165) All levels 18 and older
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Winter Wonderland with Flowers

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Learn to make beautiful arrangements with seasonal flowers. See what flowers are blooming in December, what flowers are long-lasting, and how to make them last even longer—or use dry flowers in combination with freshly cut. We start with basic design principles, from choreography and Japanese floral practice. Please bring your own shears, and we will provide fresh, seasonal flowers. Note: If you have not received the link by 6 p.m. 3 days...

(165) All levels 18 and older
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What to Do With That Vase

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Bring that beautiful but odd vase that you got as a gift and work with the instructor to figure out how to make a beautiful floral arrangement that complements your container.  You bring the vase, the instructor brings the flowers...together you’ll make a fine duet. Please bring your own shears.

(165) All levels 18 and older
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Plan Your Vegetable Garden

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

This course explores how best to plan your vegetable garden, including crop selection, planting schedules, and succession planting. In the greenhouse, we practice starting seeds appropriate for early spring; participants take home seeds ideal for spring planting.

(165) All levels 18 and older
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Eco-Friendly & Architecturally Satisfying Floral Design

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Working with a compostable base (AgraWool floral foam) and seasonal, locally grown flowers, we will make an arrangement that moves beyond basic design principles and employs more complex techniques. Please bring your own shears.

(165) Intermediate 18 and older
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Botanical Jewelry Making

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

This class introduces students to the world of botanical jewelry. Learn about the history of botanical jewelry, plants you can use, when to harvest, and how to prepare plant materials for stringing. Instructor will have available an assortment of seeds and other plant materials and jewelry-making components for students to create their own unique jewelry and learn basic jewelry-making skills.

(165) All levels 18 and older
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