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Care and Maintenance of Hand Tools
Gardening, as with any occupation, can be accomplished much easier and be much more enjoyable when the right tools are utilized. Discover how much easier your garden chores are with clean, sharp tools! This hands-on workshop will be held periodically during the season. Each workshop is limited to 10 participants. Bring your favorite (or dirtiest) hand tool and learn how to disassemble, clean, sharpen, sterilize, oil and reassemble. Covers hand pruners, lopping shears, hand shears, pole pruners – even shovels! $20.00 Materials Fee.
Contact us at 484-483-3495 or info@carriagehousedesign.net for info on the next workshop or schedule a workshop with some of your friends!
April
April 7, 2020, 7:00 pm -Still scheduled at this time, check back as date gets closer.
Common Vegetable Garden Pests
Moorestown Garden Club
Meets at Salem UCC Church
2218 Community Dr.
Bath, PA 18014
Join us as Lori Metz from Carriage House Landscape Design shows us how to identify and control common pests in our vegetable garden.
April 11, 2020, 10:00 am -12:00 pm - Cancelled. Will try to cover this info at June 6th Mid-season Worksop
Early Season Shrub and Perennial Care Workshop
By Carriage House Landscape Design
Pierce Memorial Garden at the Chrin Community Center Park
4100 Green Pond Rd. Dr.
Palmer, PA 18045
Do you know how to deadhead perennials or when to trim your roses? Knowing how and when to prune is an important part of caring for your garden and landscape plants. Join us for an informal workshop and learn how and when to properly care for your landscape plants at the beginning of the growing season. This workshop is free but registration is strongly recommended. Please register by April 10, 2020, by calling 484.483.3495 or by emailing info@carriagehousedesign.net. Light refreshments will be provided.
April 18, 2020, 2:00 pm - Cancelled.
Potherbs for Your Palate
Legend Senior Living
6043 Lower Macungie Rd,
Macungie, PA 18062
Legend Senior Living invites you to join them as Lori Metz of Carriage House Landscape Design presents Potherbs for Your Palate. Lori will discuss culinary herbs everyone can grow, how and where to grow them, and share some easy (and different) ways to use them. An introduction to teas, tisanes, cocktails, oils, and vinegars from your garden.
May
May 13, 2020, 1:00 pm - Still scheduled at this time, check back as date gets closer.
Potherbs for Your Palate
Lower Macungie Garden Club
Meets at the Lower Macungie Library
3450 Brookside Rd,
Macungie, PA 18062
Lori will discuss culinary herbs everyone can grow, how and where to grow them, and share some easy (and different) ways to use them. An introduction to teas, tisanes, cocktails, oils, and vinegars from your garden.
May 19, 2020, 6:00 pm - Still scheduled at this time, check back as date gets closer.
Small Space Vegetable Gardening
W H Walters Free Public Library
1003 East Blvd,
Alpha, NJ 08865
Think you don’t have enough room to grow your own vegetables? This program will help you discover places to grow edible plants and covers the basics of choosing plants, starting seeds, caring for and maintaining your edibles and more. Bring a container of your choice (minimum of 10 inches, maximum of 20 inches) and install and take home a vegetable or herb to grow. For more information contact
(908) 454-1445 or alphapubliclibrary1@outlook.com
June
June 4-5, 2020 - Cancelled for this year. Planning for 2021.
Governor Wolf Historical Society
2nd Annual Summer Institute of Colonial Arts
6600 Jacksonville Rd,
Bath, PA 18014
The first “GWHS Summer Institute of Colonial Arts” was held May 30, 31 2019 and it was a huge success! Classes were all make-and-take where students went home with a completed Colonial treasure! Many students signed up for multiple classes. Classes offered were painted canvas floorcloths, split oak market baskets, herbs in colonial cooking, grain painting, hooked rugs, small bench with wood dovetails, landscape painting, bronzing, needlefelted animals, and more – all arts practiced in the 1700 and 1800s. Breakfast and lunch was included in the class fee.
Plans for the 2020 Summer Institute are underway. There will be additional offerings and some new instructors. Classes may be extended into Saturday morning. Registration information will be posted as it becomes available at www.govwolf.org, visit Wolf Academy Historic Site on FB, or call Carol at 610-390-0555. June 4-5, 2020 – SAVE THE DATES!
June 6, 2020, 10:00 am -12:00 pm - Still scheduled at this time, check back as date gets closer.
Mid-Season Mulch, Shrub and Perennial Care Workshop
By Carriage House Landscape Design
Pierce Memorial Garden at the Chrin Community Center Park
4100 Green Pond Rd. Dr.
Palmer, PA 18045
Do you know how much mulch to use and why to use mulch? Ever wonder what's growing in your mulch? Knowing how and when to prune is an important part of caring for your garden and landscape plants. Join us for an informal workshop and learn how and when to properly care for your landscape plants at this time of year and how to properly apply mulch. This workshop is free but registration is strongly recommended. Please register by June 5, 2020, by calling 484.483.3495 or by emailing info@carriagehousedesign.net. Light refreshments will be provided.
October
October 7, 2020, 1:00 pm - Still scheduled at this time, check back as date gets closer.
Plants of the Bible
Catasauqua Garden Club
Meets at Slovak Club
1223 5th St, Catasauqua, PA 18032
Exploring plants and botanical symbolism in the Bible and other religions. This presentation includes important plants and agricultural crops in Biblical times from figs and apples in the Garden of Eden to frankincense, myrrh, lumber, and oils still in use today.
