Cultivate Your Wild Side
Cultivate Your Wild Side is the theme of our environmental workshop series. Workshops on heritage gardening, quail and songbird habitat, low maintenance gardening, and landscape construction are typical offerings. Our current programs are:
Arkansas Native Plant ID Workshop
May 17-18, 2008 beginning at 9:00 a.m.
Registration is now closed. This workshop is limited to 20 participants.
Tomato Workshop - From the Seed to the Plate
June 28, 2008
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Arkansas Native Plant ID Workshop
Make like a tree and leave the hustle and bustle of city life behind for a fun and instructive Plant ID Workshop. Whether you’re an amateur outdoor person or a professional natural resource manager, you’ll find this workshop to be informative.
Participants will be introduced to many of Arkansas’ most important native trees, shrubs, vines and wildflowers as well as learn the basic skills needed to identify those species. This is an outdoor event so come prepared for the weather and to walk some trails.
Registration fee is $100 plus tax, which includes instructor’s fee, all meals, transportation to the trails and materials.
Overnight accommodations are available. Please call (501) 727-5435 for reservations.
Click here to download a flyer about this event (Adobe PDF file).
Tomato Workshop - From the Seed to the Plate
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This Cultivate Your Wild Side workshop is devoted to the tomato. As the title indicates, you can expect to learn how to grow tomatoes as well as to serve them at the family table.
Visitors will tour the Rockefeller Institute’s vegetable garden, which boasts 20 tomato varieties. A tomato culinary class with Chef Rick Tankersley will focus on cooking with tomatoes. Another class will teach you how to grow tomatoes. Cookbooks (featuring tomato recipes, of course) and homemade tomato salsa will be on sale, including salsa prepared by our very own Executive Chef Heather Welch. Seed vendors will be also be on site offering dozens of tomato seeds to brighten up your garden.
Register online today. To learn more about this workshop, call Sandy Davies at (501) 215-7990 or send an e-mail.
