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Many community gardens seek to increase fresh food access in their neighborhoods by growing crops to share with community members for free, or donating produce to local food pantries. How can we make the most of our efforts to grow healthy, productive crops for donation? Learn from local garden leaders and Grow Pittsburgh staff. Thanks […]

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 […]

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. A miracle happened this year when a zebra swallowtail showed up in Greenfield and laid eggs for […]

Turn that harvest of peppers into delicious pickled peppers. This will be a workshop that is easy for beginners to follow along and make their very own water bath pickled peppers.

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.

Learn some strategies for Fall and Winter growing in the home garden.

Plan your fall planting with the school gardens team. Learn basic strategies for crop rotation throughout the year and leave prepared to clean up your garden this fall.

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. A miracle happened this year when a zebra swallowtail showed up in Greenfield and laid eggs for […]

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 growing peppers in containers and in-ground beds. We will touch on seed starting, cultivation techniques, pest/disease issues, and favorite varieties and do an informal tasting, most likely just right off […]

In this workshop, you'll learn how to make pastel pigments from flowers and how to apply them with simple watercolor techniques.