Learn how to take a standard market bouquet and make it your own creation. David Pippin shares tips and composition guidelines, and also how to examine your flowers for freshness and longevity. Students bring sharp floral snips and garden clippers.

Don’t underestimate the possibilities for arranging in the bleak of winter! This elective explores the bounty of materials a cold landscape can offer including lichen covered branches, mosses, stones and evergreen foliage mixed with a limited palette of florist flowers and minimal floral mechanics. Basic arranging course work is required. Students bring sharp floral snips […]

Executive Chef Anne Maury Haapala helps take the fear out of cooking fresh fish and seafood by providing tips on selection, proper cooking techniques, and creating the perfect sauce to enhance your dish. Anne’s hour and a half demonstration is followed by a delectable lunch featuring some of the recipes discussed.

In this beekeeping for beginners and advanced beginners class, learn best management practices and techniques to help keep honey bees healthy and productive in urban areas, suburban and rural settings using all-natural, bee-friendly methods.  Participants learn about the many aspects of beekeeping, observe a bee hive up close, learn how to install and care for […]

Advanced Watercolor Techniques covers drawing and painting fruit and vegetables, as well as refining students’ skill sets in design, composition, use of color and painting technique. The focus is on understanding shape, volume and correct light source. Sessions address textured surfaces, shine and moisture drops. Instructor: Betsy Lyon

The textures and colors of the winter landscape lend themselves to the refined line and minimalism of Asian-style floral design. Instructor Laura Anne Brooks shows you how to blend material from the winter garden with florist materials. All floral materials provided. Students bring sharp floral snips, and two kenzan (floral frogs).

More than sauerkraut and sausages, German cooking encompasses delectable aromas, delicious flavors and Gemütlichkeit (warmth, coziness and cheer). Learn about the delights of classic German cuisine with Executive Chef Anne Maury Haapala as she demonstrates how home chefs can create regional favorites at home, like from-scratch spaetzle, beef rouladen and more. Demonstration is followed by […]

Miniatures, or miniature arrangements, bring their own set of challenges to floral design. Instructor David Pippin helps you understand how scale and proportion are affected by the surrounding space and container for the arrangement, and how to choose flowers appropriate for these tiny delights. Bring your own containers and spend some time in a whole […]