Flower Academy: Grow Your Own Cutting Garden

Do you dream of walking out into your garden and cutting a fresh bunch of flowers for your table? Or gathering a few stems to gift to a friend? Do you want to learn how to have flowers throughout the growing season, and not just for a few months of the year? This workshop is for you! Join farmer-florist Marisa Mender-Franklin for this four part series, where you'll learn how to plan a garden that will produce balanced bouquets from April through October.  Part 1: Winter Sowing for Early Spring Blooms. During this 90 minute workshop, we'll learn how to set up mini-greenhouses using recycled containers to get earlier spring blooms. We'll cover what varieties of flowers benefit from this method, how to care for your seedlings once they've germinated and then everyone will get to make a greenhouse to take home (seeds and soil included!). Part 2: Planning a Cutting Garden. During this 90 minute workshop, we will cover site selection, plant selection, timing, spacing, and all of the factors