Making Flower Essences From Your Garden and Yard

Learn how to make flower essences as a way to bottle some of the energy of favorite flowers and have access to them at any time. We’ll go through most of the steps using plants at the library, and you’ll leave with a handout to guide you in making your own at home. Please dress in layers for comfort both inside the library and for a short time outside.
Presented by Deborah Mayaan, MA

Backyard Beekeeping

Find out what all the buzz is about! Join Linda McKittrick, Tucson beekeeper, gardener, and artist, for a discussion of the art of backyard beekeeping.

Sharing her tools of the trade, Linda provides insight into bees as an integral part our gardens, our food systems, and seed saving. We will discuss current threats to bee populations, how to begin keeping a hive in your own yard, and how keeping a hive can strengthen honeybees, your garden, seed yields, as well as your own life. Plus it's fun!
Presented by Linda McKittrick.

A Cook's Garden

Presented by Christina O'Connell.
A Cook's Garden is at the heart of every meal. Learn how to plan, plant and use fresh herbs and vegetables you can grow in your own Cook's Garden. Take home samples and simple recipes.

What's Wrong with My Garden?

Diagnose common vegetable garden pests and diseases. Learn natural ways to control pests and weeds in your garden.
Presented by the Green Valley-Sahuarita Community Food Bank.
Please register online at communityfoodbank.com/gardenworkshops or call 520-784-4669.

Backyard Beekeeping

Find out what all the buzz is about! Join Linda McKittrick, Tucson beekeeper, gardener, and artist, for a discussion of the art of backyard beekeeping.

Sharing her tools of the trade, Linda provides insight into bees as an integral part our gardens, our food systems, and seed saving. We will discuss current threats to bee populations, how to begin keeping a hive in your own yard, and how keeping a hive can strengthen honeybees, your garden, seed yields, as well as your own life. Plus it's fun!
Presented by Linda McKittrick.

Seed Broadcasting with Seed Balls: History, Methods, Hands-on

Learn to make seed balls and hear the history of Masanobu Fukuoka's no-till farming methods. Discover an exciting way to help re-vegetate our city's landscape and create a local plant paradise!
Presented by Josh Banno

Making Flavored Oils for Dipping

Join Joanie Rogucki, Registered Dietician Nutritionist, as she tells you how to make flavored oils for dipping.
Presented by the Green Valley-Sahuarita Community Food Bank.
Space is limited. Please register online at communityfoodbank.com/gardenworkshops or by calling 520-784-4669.

Seed Saving 101

Learn the basics on how to save seed from common vegetables and native plants. A hands-on workshop that covers several methods of saving seed, along with a presentation on the importance on saving seed, and an invitation to join in the saving of our world's biodiversity.
Presented by Josh Banno

Sonoran Supermarket

Presented by the Arizona–Sonora Desert Museum.
Explore local resources that native peoples of the Sonoran Desert – Tohono O'odham, Yaqui, and Seri – have traditionally used for food, medicines, and fibers. Experiment with native plant materials to make your own cordage and discover foods and tools that have exist in your desert backyard for hundreds of years.

Registration for this event is required. Register for this event online

Sonoran Supermarket

Presented by the Arizona–Sonora Desert Museum.
Explore local resources that native peoples of the Sonoran Desert – Tohono O'odham, Yaqui, and Seri – have traditionally used for food, medicines, and fibers. Experiment with native plant materials to make your own cordage and discover foods and tools that have exist in your desert backyard for hundreds of years.

Registration for this event is required. Register for this event online

A Cook's Garden

Presented by Christina O'Connell.
A Cook's Garden is at the heart of every meal. Learn how to plan, plant and use fresh herbs and vegetables you can grow in your own Cook's Garden. Take home samples and simple recipes.

Seed Broadcasting with Seed Balls: History, Methods, Hands-on

Learn to make seed balls and hear the history of Masanobu Fukuoka's no-till farming methods. Discover an exciting way to help re-vegetate our city's landscape and create a local plant paradise!
Presented by Josh Banno

Sonoran Supermarket

Presented by the Arizona–Sonora Desert Museum.
Explore local resources that native peoples of the Sonoran Desert – Tohono O'odham, Yaqui, and Seri – have traditionally used for food, medicines, and fibers. Experiment with native plant materials to make your own cordage and discover foods and tools that have exist in your desert backyard for hundreds of years.

Seed Saving 101

Learn the basics on how to save seed from common vegetables and native plants. This is a hands-on workshop that covers several methods of saving seed, along with a presentation on the importance on saving seed, and an invitation to join in the saving of our world's biodiversity.
Presented by Josh Banno

Planning Your Fall Garden

Learn the basics on soil preparation plus what to plant and when for growing vegetables in the fall-winter season.
Presented by the Green Valley-Sahuarita Community Food Bank.
Space is limited. Please register online at communityfoodbank.com/gardenworkshops or by calling 520-784-4669.

Seed Saving 101

Learn the basics on how to save seed from common vegetables and native plants. A hands-on workshop that covers several methods of saving seed, along with a presentation on the importance on saving seed, and an invitation to join in the saving of our world's biodiversity.
Presented by Josh Banno