Featured Programs for Adult Learners
Explore our featured classes and tours for adult learners! To view all of our upcoming classes, visit our Garden Course Finder or use our Programs by Date tool.
BEYOND BIRDING
FOR BEGINNERS
Saturday, March 29, 2025
9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Ready to explore more about birds and birdwatching? Join Barb and Buz Sawyer, avid birdwatchers, in exploring a little deeper into this fascinating past-time. Perhaps you can already identify several common species (at least the males!) and have a pair of binoculars, but you want to expand your skills. Sometimes you hear the bird, but can’t see it. Sometimes it just flies too quickly to get a good look. The males are often easy to identify, but those females can be hard. And sometimes those “little brown jobs” can be downright frustrating. Tools, techniques, and equipment will be shared, as well as discussing bird behavior, habitats and conservation. Weather permitting, we will visit different habitats within the Garden.
Bring your stories and your questions! Barb will share photos of some of the places they have traveled on birdwatching adventures and Buz will talk about keeping a life list (his includes almost 500 species!).
Learn More & RegisterSPRING SUCCULENT
WREATH
Saturday, March 29, 2025
10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Create a unique living wreath for spring with Melissa Tebbenhoff of Rusted Rabbitt in Williamsburg. Using air plants and exotic succulents of your choice in spring hues, create a living work of art. Melissa guides you through the process of designing your wreath with an assortment of live plants and dried flowers. Your creation can last for months and beyond with little maintenance. The class concludes with a deep dive into all the maintenance of your succulents and your new living piece of art.
Learn More & RegisterBERRY BLISS:
STRAWBERRY CONTAINER GARDENING
Saturday, March 29, 2025
1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Explore the art of cultivating strawberries on patios, decks, and small spaces using containers with instructor Will Nelson, who operates a local gardening business called “Will to Plant.” Learn about selecting containers, choosing ideal strawberry varieties, proper planting techniques, maintenance, and harvesting tips to ensure a bountiful yield. Take home five bare-root, day-neutral strawberry plants and a container, ready to kick-start your own strawberry-growing adventure. Experience your very own berry bliss with homegrown strawberries!
Learn More & RegisterHAPPY
FEET!
Sunday, March 30, 2025
2 – 3:30 p.m.
Does the title of this workshop describe your feet? Most people only notice their feet when there is some pain or discomfort involved. Whether you work on your feet or not, this workshop will teach you gentle functional movement exercises, mindfulness and imagery techniques to improve posture and function. Including self-massage, and ball rolling techniques. The result will be- Happy Feet!
Learn More & RegisterGENTLE YOGA:
APRIL
Starting Tuesday, April 1, 2025
10 – 11 a.m.
Many styles of yoga utilize a sun salutation, a warm-up that honors the sun. Keeping to this spirit, class begins with a “Garden Salutation” in the Central Garden (weather permitting). Returning to the classroom and the yoga mat, practice continues with core strengthening, mobility and restorative yoga poses. This class is designed for those who wish to feel a sense of ease, strength and balance in their daily movements, foster well-being for healing or rejuvenation and experience inner peace and community in the welcoming setting of the Garden. Instructor Rie Monique Cherie brings a multifaceted therapeutic approach to gentle yoga with her combined knowledge of both ancient and modern Mind-Body practices.
Learn More & RegisterEMBRACING
Companion Planting
Saturday, April 5, 2025
10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Growing vegetables sustainably can be achieved by embracing companion planting. Learn how to grow more in a smaller space while managing disease and insect pressures. Discover how pairing some plants enriches the soil biome which improves the flavor of your produce, increases nutrient uptake while minimizing weeds. Matching specific pollinator plants with your vegetables will increase your yield, too. Join me to explore and embrace an alternative method to grow vegetables.
Learn More & RegisterLearning for All
We believe that all adults in our community should have access to plant-based, nature-focused learning opportunities. Each season, we offer adult classes with several pricing tiers to enable you to register at the amount you’re able to pay.
A Garden for All
We are committed to offering diverse adult learning opportunities that are inclusive and accessible to all learners. If you would like to request an accommodation to support your participation in an adult learning opportunity at the Garden, please contact [email protected] or call 804-262-9887 x320 and we will make our best effort to help.
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