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Harvest Trends: 2022 Trends + new and unique plants for your backyard harvest This virtual class will explore underutilized, exotic, and heirloom varieties of vegetables and herbs that deserve a […]

Bonsai allows the gardener to use creativity and precision to form a shape from virtually any plant. Bonsai often last for years and even generations, as the gardener/artist prunes and shapes the plant to realize a vision. In this class, Certified Professional Horticulturalist and Homestead Gardens Nursery Manager Zach Ebaugh will teach participants how to visualize their bonsai project, choose a plant, and how to water, feed, and care for their investment. This class is free.

Learn how to choose, care for, and enjoy chickens and ducks when you visit Homestead Gardens for our Chicks on the Loose event! Our classes are completely free!

Best-selling author Melissa Caughey will offer firsthand insights into how chickens communicate and interact, use their senses to understand the world around them, and establish pecking order and roles within the flock. Caughey answers unexpected questions such as Do chickens have names for each other? How do their eyes work? And How do chickens learn?

Learn from Homestead Gardens Horticulturalist and Nursery Manager Zach Ebaugh about planning and planting your own Pollinator Cafe: a space in your yard, patio, or porch that will provide food, shelter, water, and nesting spaces for pollinators. This class is free, however, registration is required.

Small Space Gardening Small Space Gardening is one of the hottest trends in horticulture in 2022, as folks work to maximize every inch of planting space in backyards, patios, balconies, […]

Rare and Exotic Houseplants Explore a brief history of botanical collecting, then learn how to spot a rare houseplant, and how to start or grow your own collection. Certified Professional […]