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Class and Event Calendar 2013 Payment is your reservation. May Enchanted Miniature Fairy Garden - Saturday May 4th, 1:00pm-3:00pm Learn the myth & lore to attract fairies to your garden. Create your own fairy garden complete with miniature plants, herbs, furniture & decor. $50 Fairy House - Saturday May 4th, 3:00pm-5:00pm Don't let your fairies be homeless! Build a Fairy house for your garden made of natural materials and decorate with dried flowers on a wood slice base $20 Mother's Day English Cream Tea - Saturday May 11th, 12:00pm-2:00pm Sit amidst the flowers or in the gazebo or cabin while enjoying sinfully good food! Sign up early, this fills up quickly. We will have beautiful flower arrangements, planters & tea baskets. $25 per person Green Wall or Wreath - Thursday May 16th, 6:30pm-8:30pm Learn how to effectively plant herbs and succulents on a wall or living wreath. $40 wall $60 wreath Berry Garden - Saturday May 18th, 10:00am-12:00pm Learn the health benefits of berries. Sample 2 recipes made with berries, choose 2 different types of berry plants to take home. Choose from: blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, kiwi, figs & grapes. $35 Roses: Queen of the Garden - Saturday May 25th, 10:00am-12:00pm Learn the folklore, healthful properties & the delicious flavor & fragrance of the rose. Select 1 variety of the new David Austin Roses, sample a rose dessert & make a rose potpourri. $50 June Herbal Medicine - Saturday June 1st-June22nd, 10:00am-12:00pm Harvest herbs and learn to make healing tinctures, salves & teas. Four sessions: June 1, June 8, June 15, June 22 $100 Summer English Cream Tea - Saturday June 8th, 12:00pm-2:00pm Relax & enjoy a delightful tea prepared by the Elkridge Furnace Inn. Served in our decorated garden cabin or gazebo by the pond. Includes a seasonal favor. $25 per person Tea Garden - Tuesday June 11th, 6:30pm-8:30pm Make a planter filled with herbs such as mint and chamomile that are perfect for brewing home-grown tea. $25 Moon Garden - Thursday June 20th, 6:30pm-8:00pm Learn what plants make a beautiful Moon Garden, also known as a White Garden, and take home 3 plants. $30 Summer Solstice Celebration & Plant Sale - Saturday June 22nd, 10:00am-6:00pm Celebrate the advent of Summer in the gardens. Enjoy a tour through our lush gardens, take a hayride and bring a picnic and listen to music in the gardens or by the pond. Plants will be on sale as well! Children can make a free vegetable & flower planter! Sample free compost with worms (gummy) & compost (herbal) tea! Take a woodland walk & visit the animals. Free for all! 10% off all plants! Native Plants - Tuesday June 25th, 6:30pm-8:30pm Learn the importance of native plants for drought tolerance, attracting beneficial insects & birds that improve our environment & make a sustainable landscape. See many indigenous plants & take 2 native plants home with you, to increase your biodiversity $25 Power of Greens - Saturday June 29th, 10:00am-12:00pm Learn the power of greens from our garden and earth by tasting foods, that help fight chronic diseases such as arthritis, heart disease, stroke, cancer & diabetes. Take home recipes and plants. Sample several wonderful dishes of good health. $35 Fourth of July Bouquet - Tuesday June 29th, 2:00pm-3:00pm Use seasonal flowers to create a firework display of flowers. Use our fresh cut red white & blue flowers to make a beautiful bouquet. $15 July Forage for wild edibles and learn how to distinguish some edible plants from inedible ones. Dandelions, elder flowers, rosehips, lambsquarters & wild black cherries should help create some of our dishes. 2 sessions. $40 Herbal Cosmetics - Saturday July 13th, 10:00am-1:00pm Learn how to make different lotions, salves and facial products from organic flowers & herbs. $40 Flower Press Class - Thursdays July 18th & 25th, 6:30-8:30pm Press flowers to make note cards and a picture in two sessions. Take home your own flower press. $40 Citrus Class - Saturday July 20th, 10:00 - 12:00pm Home grown citrus! We've been home for dwarf citrus plants for over 30 years. Easy care plants with great rewards. Learn their healthful properties & sample 2 citrus recipes & leave with a citrus plant of your choice $55 Al Fresco Dinner from the Garden - Saturday July 27th, 6:00 - 8:00pm Learn how to cook straight from your garden. Take home easy recipes to cook from your own home grown veggies and enjoy a casual dinner party in the gardens. Our organically grown produce and fresh herbs from the farm will make a dinner to die for! August Many families in around the world travel for miles every day to cook with wood. Learn about the environmental benefits of cooking with solar. Take home solar oven recipes, learn how to prepare and taste a meal made with the energy of the sun. $20 Flower Indulgence - Saturday August 10th, 10:00am - 12:00pm Surround yourself with fresh cut flowers. Learn how to cut your own flowers and make four wildflower arrangements for your home $50 September Late Summer English Cream Tea - Saturday September 7th, 12:00pm-2:00pm Relax & enjoy a delightful tea prepared by the Elkridge Furnace Inn. Served in our decorated garden cabin or gazebo by the pond. Includes a seasonal favor. $25 per person Sleepy Time Class - Thursday September 12th, 6:30-8:30pm Learn which herbs promote a healthy night's sleep. Make an herbal sleepy tea & a sleep pillow $30 Fresh Herb Wreath - Saturday September 14th, 10:00am-12:00pm One of the delights of growing herbs is to fashion a fresh wreath of fragrant herbs. Calming & Satisfying; it can be hung in your kitchen to dry and use for chemical free cooking. 10" wreath. $30 Food as Medicine with Herbs - Saturday September 28th, 10:00am-12:00pm Learn how to use 8 herbs and understand their medicinal properties. Take home each herb & a recipe as we make one dish as a class. $30 October Herbal Harvest - Saturday October 5th, 10:00am-12:00pm Our freshly harvested & dried herbs are ready to be made into teas, seasonings, & rubs. Make 3 different teas & 1 seasoning &1 rub. $30 Fall English Cream Tea - Saturday October 5th, 2:00pm-4:00pm Relax & enjoy a delightful tea prepared by the Elkridge Furnace Inn. Served in our decorated garden cabin or gazebo by the pond. Includes a seasonal favor. $25 per person Fall Harvest Wreath - Saturday October 12th, 10:00am-12:00pm Make a beautiful, colorful aromatic 24" wreath with freshly harvested everlastings. Blend natural colors from lavender, amaranth, celosia, & many more. Choose from assorted colors. $45 Spice Wreath - Saturday October 12th, 2:00-4:00pm Make a fall inspired twig wreath to adorn with natural decor & fragrant spices such as cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, allspice, star anise. $55 Fall Harvest Picnic - Saturday October 19th, 12:00pm-4:00pm Celebrate our 34th year! Bring a picnic and enjoy cider & fall treats as you picnic by the pond. Hayrides & Homemade Donuts free! Pumpkin patch. From 3-4pm take a wicked witches poisonous plant tour. Free for all! November Thanksgiving English Cream Tea - Saturday November 9th, 12:00pm-2:00pm Relax & enjoy a delightful tea prepared by the Elkridge Furnace Inn. Served in our decorated garden cabin or gazebo by the pond. Includes a seasonal favor. $25 per person Christmas Preview Party - Friday November 15th, 6:30pm-9:30pm Dress up and start the season with our evening Christmas Party. Our Winter Wonderland sparkles by night. Come fill yourself with Christmas spirit, herbal appetizers & warm drink. Decorations adorn, capture the warmth of the season through our natural decorations. Please call for reservations & receive a gift also, enter to win a grand prize for the evening. Christmas Open House - Saturday November 16th 10-6 and Sunday November 17th, 12-4pm Come visit our Winter Wonderland. Aromatic fresh cut greens; herbs from our gardens & our luscious potpourri evoke the scents of the holiday season. Let us make your home fragrant with wreaths, kissing balls, herbal gifts & glittery ornaments from the North Pole. Lovely handcrafted ornaments artistically made from nature's gifts, hang from our themed trees. Start a tradition with folk-art vintage ornaments. Great for collectors. Sample spiced punch, teas, herbal foods & cookies. Door prizes all day & festive music. Enjoy live violin & guitar Walking in a Christmas Wonderland Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays November 22nd-December 21st, 4:30pm-7:00pm With the aid of magical fairy dust, you and your family can go on a self-guided walk to the North Pole, through the forest of Candy Canes and more, to see Santa's Ice Palace where the elves are busy at work. Walk through our gardens with lighted scenes of Christmas. See the flower fairies decorate the gazebo, Gingerbread house, Forest Animal Christmas Party, Nativity & lit gardens. New scenes added each year. Hot chocolate & Cookies await you at the barn. Rumor has it that Santa will be visiting the Garden Cabin on Fridays & Saturdays. | ||
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