Learn how to plant seedlings, directly sow, weed, prune, companion plant, harvest vegetables, dry herbs, and more with Queens County Farm Museum’s in-house Botanist and biology expert, Tess Fleming. Our Compost and STEM Coordinators will also be onsite for several of these fully outdoor, hands-on gardening sessions. Sessions take place in one or more of our six Teaching Gardens where we plant and harvest tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, a wide variety of lettuces, kale, broccoli, zucchini, summer squash, sunflowers, strawberries, onions, potatoes, turnips, parsnips, green beans, snap peas, cucamelons, radishes, carrots, watermelon, and a large assortment of herbs and spices.
Each session is 1 hour long and focuses on a particular topic related to gardening:
What could be better? Learn new skills, get your hands dirty, take a walk outdoors, and eat the freshest produce available!
Select dates | 2pm - 3pm$5 per session
Topics: Weeds, Spring Crops, Herbs, Seedlings, Roots, Tubers
- March 21- April 4 & 18- May 2 & 23
Topics: Peas & Carrots, Flower Day, Compost & Fertilizer, Pest Detective
- May 30- June 13 & 27- July 11 & 25
Topics: Tomatoes, Mint, Playing w/ Mud, Artsy Flowers, Plant Doctor, Cucurbits
- August 8 & 22- September 5, 12, & 26
Topics: Seeds & Beans, Harvest Party, Veggies Crafts, Greenhouses
- October 10, 17, & 31- November 14 & 28
Tess Fleming is the Queens County Farm Museum's in-house Botanist and plant-science educator who cares for the six educational gardens at Queens Farm. Growing up in Brooklyn as a nature-loving kid, she knows firsthand how important outdoor education and green spaces can be in New York City, thankful to have been able to spend four years learning as a teen apprentice at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and several years after that as an active member of her local community garden. She graduated with Bachelor's of Science in Biology with honors from the City University of New York and has worked in science education and research for the past few years. Obsessed with learning as much as possible about botany, insects, and the natural world, she has gained a good deal of experience identifying wild plants and cultivating tame ones and is always learning more.
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