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- Members $70
- Nonmembers $80
It’s heartbreaking when your beautiful floral arrangement curls up and withers away. If only there was a way to preserve the gorgeous blooms – for years. Well, there is! Join instructor Collette Walsh from Sol Patch Garden as she discusses dried floral design. Create your own personalized wreath to take home. All flowers and materials are included in the registration fee and have been grown locally by your instructor! Collette will also provide an overview of the flower drying process so you can begin planning your own cutting garden for next year – and your own wreath! Take home your own fabulous floral wreath.
Speaker
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Collette WalshFarmer & Instructor - Sol Patch Garden
Collette started Sol Patch Garden in 2016. She began growing flowers in her grandmother’s Forest Hills garden right outside Pittsburgh, PA. With a background in vegetable production, Collette switched to flower farming upon moving to Pittsburgh in 2016. She currently owns and operates her urban flower farm in the same neighborhood she calls home: Braddock, PA.
Collette is a first-generation farmer hailing originally from Brooklyn, NY, but maintains deep familial roots in Pittsburgh and Braddock. She became involved in agriculture while in high school when her family began raising chickens in their backyard under the name “Red Hook Poultry Association.” While at Allegheny College she pursued an undergraduate degree in Environmental Studies and graduated in 2013. Upon graduation, she moved to Birmingham, Alabama to work at Jones Valley Teaching Farm for a year before moving to New York’s Hudson Valley to learn more about intensive vegetable production on Obercreek Farm’s 15 plus acres. With a desire to learn more about the intersections of science, agriculture, and social justice, Collette participated in the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS) Apprenticeship program. Through the apprenticeship program at UC Santa Cruz, she earned a Certificate in Ecological Horticulture in 2015. And now in the spring of present day, she grows flowers with and for her people as a small women-owned farm and business.
Sol Patch Garden is small but mighty. It operates under the ethos of “flowers for the people.” Which is from a zine that was birthed by her dear friend Lucy White of @_loosepages.
Sponsor
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Pittsburgh Botanic Garden
It’s heartbreaking when your beautiful floral arrangement curls up and withers away. If only there was a way to preserve the gorgeous blooms – for years. Well, there is! Join instructor Collette Walsh from Sol Patch Garden as she discusses dried floral design. Create your own personalized wreath to take home. All flowers and materials are included in the registration fee and have been grown locally by your instructor! Collette will also provide an overview of the flower drying process so you can begin planning your own cutting garden for next year – and your own wreath! Take home your own fabulous floral wreath.
Speaker
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Collette WalshFarmer & Instructor - Sol Patch Garden
Collette started Sol Patch Garden in 2016. She began growing flowers in her grandmother’s Forest Hills garden right outside Pittsburgh, PA. With a background in vegetable production, Collette switched to flower farming upon moving to Pittsburgh in 2016. She currently owns and operates her urban flower farm in the same neighborhood she calls home: Braddock, PA.
Collette is a first-generation farmer hailing originally from Brooklyn, NY, but maintains deep familial roots in Pittsburgh and Braddock. She became involved in agriculture while in high school when her family began raising chickens in their backyard under the name “Red Hook Poultry Association.” While at Allegheny College she pursued an undergraduate degree in Environmental Studies and graduated in 2013. Upon graduation, she moved to Birmingham, Alabama to work at Jones Valley Teaching Farm for a year before moving to New York’s Hudson Valley to learn more about intensive vegetable production on Obercreek Farm’s 15 plus acres. With a desire to learn more about the intersections of science, agriculture, and social justice, Collette participated in the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS) Apprenticeship program. Through the apprenticeship program at UC Santa Cruz, she earned a Certificate in Ecological Horticulture in 2015. And now in the spring of present day, she grows flowers with and for her people as a small women-owned farm and business.
Sol Patch Garden is small but mighty. It operates under the ethos of “flowers for the people.” Which is from a zine that was birthed by her dear friend Lucy White of @_loosepages.
Sponsor
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Pittsburgh Botanic Garden
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