Learn how to grow and care for your home tomato garden. Farmers Tara & Hanna will guide participants through the Shiloh tomato field and discuss everything from seed selection and transplanting, to trellising and pruning, harvesting best practices, to pest and disease management. We will share insight into favorite preparations & uses. Plus, we will […]
Come and learn how to get started with your tomato canning projects! In this workshop we will go over the equipment and processes for safely preparing tomato sauce for winter use. After the workshop participants can visit the Braddock Farmstand to purchase bulk tomatoes for canning.
Come check out Shiloh Farm and see all the food and community we are growing in North Point Breeze. Take a tour of our quarter-acre production farm and meet our laying hens, honeybees, and more! We will have free food cooking on the grill, tomato-tasting, and art activities for kids and adults.
Have you ever tasted a pawpaw? Do you know what a pawpaw is? Come to Garden Dreams to sample local pawpaws as they ripen. Gabrielle Marsden will explain their anachronistic ways and discuss the beautiful zebra swallowtail butterfly that will soon return to Pittsburgh after an absence of a hundred years! Maybe you can help […]
Have you ever tasted a pawpaw? Do you know what a pawpaw is? Come to Garden Dreams to sample local pawpaws as they ripen. Gabrielle Marsden will explain their anachronistic ways and discuss the beautiful zebra swallowtail butterfly that will soon return to Pittsburgh after an absence of a hundred years! Maybe you can help […]
Join us for our Monthly Volunteer Project at Braddock Farms. Open to anyone wanting to volunteer with Grow Pittsburgh. Braddock Farms is located at 1000 Braddock Avenue, Braddock, PA, 15104. The type of volunteer work you can expect: Mulching pathways, weeding and cultivating garden beds, general clean-up and beautification of the farm and the surrounding […]
We will demo how to preserve our favorite roasted tomato salsa! We will go through the whole process of cooking & canning the salsa in the Braddock Outdoor Kitchen. We will have copies of the recipe and you will be able to purchase all of the veggies in the salsa at the Braddock Farm Stand […]
Have you ever tasted a pawpaw? Do you know what a pawpaw is? Come to Garden Dreams to sample local pawpaws as they ripen. Gabrielle Marsden will explain their anachronistic ways and discuss the beautiful zebra swallowtail butterfly that will soon return to Pittsburgh after an absence of a hundred years! Maybe you can help […]
Come and learn about the basics of making hot sauce and how you can incorporate hot peppers into your everyday cooking. This workshop is sponsored by CRAFT at Chatham University and led by Trina Goggins from The Hood Garden.
Learn how to grow and care for your home pepper garden that will take your culinary dishes to the next level. Participants will learn about seeding and cultivating, in both in-ground beds and containers. We will touch on seed starting, cultivation techniques, pest/disease issues,and do an informal tasting, most likely just right off the plants!
Interested in pressure canning but not sure where to start? Join Grow Pittsburgh for an introductory workshop that will discuss what foods should be pressure canned, how pressure canning works, and safety while pressure canning. Participants will leave this workshop with a basic understanding of how pressure canners work, when to pressure can vs. water […]
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