Workshops
Let’s learn, grow, and inspire positive change together with a focus on sustainability and organic farming! Join us for workshops on local ecology, sustainable agriculture, wild crafting, gardening, climate change mitigation, cooking with farm-grown organic ingredients, and more.
Upcoming
September 4 – Sip & Snip: Flowers, Snacks, and an Evening to Get Away
September 5 — Gardening for Biodiversity
September 27 – Fall Blooming Native Plants for Pollinator Support
October 18 – Seed Collection for Restoration and Home Gardening
October 25 – Together at the Table: Family Cooking Class
November 7 – Together at the Table: Family Cooking Class
December 13 – Wintersowing Native Perennials
Financial Support Info
Sip & Snip: Flowers, Snacks, and an Evening to Get Away
Date: Friday, September 4
Time: 5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
Price: $50
Gather your favorite people and join us for Sip & Snip – a relaxed, hands-on evening spent enjoying the beauty of the farm, getting creative with flowers, and savoring delicious bites and sips.
We'll begin with a tour of our cut flower and perennial gardens, where you'll learn about what we're growing and have the chance to harvest some of the season's beautiful blooms. Then, we'll head into the workshop to learn the art of arranging flowers before creating bouquets to brighten your home.
Throughout the evening, enjoy a spread of crudité made with our fresh produce and served with our farm-made spreads. You'll also sip on mocktails featuring Cedar Circle herbs.
Give yourself an evening to slow down, get creative, and enjoy a little taste of farm beauty.
Gardening for Biodiversity
Date: Saturday, September 5
Time: 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Price: Sliding scale ($5–$20)
Discover how thoughtful plant choices can transform your garden into a thriving habitat for pollinators and other beneficial wildlife! In this workshop, Katherine, our Annual & Perennial Department Manager, will share the basics of ecological gardening and selecting native and pollinator-friendly plants to support biodiversity, strengthen local ecosystems, and create a beautiful, vibrant home landscape. Whether you're just getting started or looking to make your garden more conservation-minded, you'll leave with practical tips and inspiration to help your garden flourish while supporting the pollinators that keep our environment healthy.
Together at the Table: Family Cooking Class
Join us for caregiver and child cooking classes for 7 to 11 year olds and caregivers with Pediatrician and Chef Auden McClure!
In this hands-on experience, children and adults will cook side-by-side. We'll learn to prepare a delicious vegetarian dish using produce from the farm, build essential kitchen skills, and choose ingredients together to make the recipe their own. This class is all about connection and confidence—cooking together, enjoying the meal together, and taking home any leftovers to continue the experience at home. We’re excited to empower families to cook together and celebrate the joy of making and sharing food as a team.
Dr. Auden McClure is a pediatrician and chef with a passion for bringing healthy, delicious food into the everyday lives of kids and families. Alongside her clinical work, Auden is a trained chef and has taught many interactive cooking classes designed for families with children of all ages. She loves helping kids get excited about cooking, tasting new foods and building confidence in the kitchen. At Cedar Circle Farm & Education Center, she is delighted to share her dual passions — healthy, flavorful food and hands-on learning — by guiding children and parents in fun, meaningful cooking experiences that support their overall health and well-being.
These classes are designed for one child (ages 7–12) and one caregiver to build skills and spend quality time!
Sign up for either one or both workshops.
Sunday, October 25
Menu: Farmhouse Pizza
Time: 3:30–5 p.m.
Price: $60 per caregiver/kid pair
Saturday, November 7
Menu: Chipotle Black Bean Tacos
Time: 10:30–12 p.m.
Price: $60 per caregiver/kid pair
Financial assistance is available for these workshops – to apply, please complete this application.
Fall Blooming Native Plants for Pollinator Support – Identification Walk and Talk
Date: Sunday, September 27
Time: 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Price: Free! This workshop is made possible with the support of the One Hive Foundation.
Join Tobi Schulman of Bird and Bee Native Plants for Native Plant ID stroll. Many of our late summer and fall blooming native plants are a beautiful and important part of the late summer and fall landscape. Come on a stroll and get to know some of them better, and learn the tools you need to help you learn them all. Not only do Asters, Goldenrods, and other fall blooming species make our landscape beautiful, they provide important pollen and nectar to pollinators including many wild bee species, including many specialist bees, butterflies (including Monarchs), moths, beetles, and other pollinators during this season. We will talk about some of the importance of supporting at risk and specialist bees and how to help record observations of pollinators we see visiting these flowers. We will discuss plant identification tools to help you get to know your landscape better, using iNaturalist to log observations of pollinators to help scientists, and the Go Botany website as identification resources.
Seed Collection for Restoration and Home Gardening
Date: Sunday, October 18
Time: 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Price: Free! This workshop is made possible with the support of the One Hive Foundation.
Join us for a hands-on workshop where you'll learn techniques for collecting seeds from a variety of native, herbaceous plants. Discover sustainable growing strategies to enhance climate resilience and cultivate a garden that supports local ecosystems. We will discuss and demonstrate techniques for identifying some of the best pollinator plants native to our area, how to responsibly collect seeds, and how to clean and store seeds before you sow. Attendees will leave with a selection of native plant seeds to start in their own gardens or hold onto until our winter sowing workshop.
Please dress for the weather and be prepared to walk outside in a field. Helpful items to bring include a kitchen sieve if you have one, a pen or pencil to make notes with, and a metal bowl.
If you've attended this workshop in the past, the core content and techniques will be the same, so much of the material will be familiar. You're more than welcome to join again, though – it's a great opportunity to refresh your skills, build confidence identifying ripe seed, and practice ethical seed collection alongside others.
Topics we will cover:
- Identifying plants in seed vs. flower in the wild and in the garden
- Ethical seed collection and protocols for maximizing biodiversity
- How to identify ripe seed, and what part of all that plant material is actually the seed!
- How clean is clean enough for home-scale seed storage, and what bugs to look out for
- Basics of proper seed storage and what is sufficient for short-term storage
Winter Sowing Native Perennials
Date: Sunday, December 13
Time: 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Price: Free! This workshop is made possible with the support of the One Hive Foundation.
Tobi Schulman of Bird and Bee Native Plants will lead this hands-on workshop on winter sowing native herbaceous perennial plants. Participants will actively learn to propagate a variety of native species and, by the end of the workshop, will be equipped to germinate their own native plants at home, enhancing their own gardens’ biodiversity and resilience.
Topics covered will include:
- How a native plant is defined and why this definition is important ecologically
- The big why — why we care and why we are doing this
- Cold stratification and how to achieve it
- Other seed dormancy issues: light dependence, darkness dependence, and scarification
- Recommended resources for finding species-specific information about germination requirements, where to buy seeds of straight species native plants, both local ecotype and from further afield when local sources are not available.
Participants will learn how to plant, care for, and overwinter their seed trays, plus basic seedling care from germination to transplanting into pots or garden spaces. Everyone will get to take home herbaceous perennial seeds, ready to overwinter and grow.
This workshop is ideal for gardeners of all levels looking to deepen their understanding of native plant propagation. If you've attended this workshop in the past, the core content and techniques will be the same, so much of the material will be familiar. You're more than welcome to join again, though – it's a great opportunity to refresh your skills, build confidence, and practice alongside others.
Past workshops: Scything 101, Spring Baking, Intermediate Gardening, Maple Sugaring: Backyard Basics, Design Your Own Annual Planter, Pollinators on Blueberry Farms, Identify and Manage Common Garden Pests, Harvest Taste Create Play, Farmer-Led Field Walk, Make Your Own Herb Planter, Create Your Own Flower Bouquet, Macrame & Lattes, Fiber Arts: Flower Printing
