Educational Workshops
Upcoming Workshops
Dead Plant Society
Little Chefs
We believe anyone can garden! The Dead Plant Society offers seasonal workshops to get you growing. You can expect to get your hands dirty practicing garden skills like composting, transplanting and seed saving. Workshops are offered February through November each year and suited for adult-learners.
We believe in seed to table education! This series of parent-child cooking workshops aims to improve family meal time through hands-on and tasty activities. Come and harvest farm fresh, seasonal produce, learn a new recipe and cook it together.
The Big Red Kitchen
Finally, a cooking series for adults! We believe anyone can cook, and "yes chef" we can make it fun too. The Big Red Kitchen cooking series invites singles, couples, parents and friends to the farm to share in an incredible seed-to-table meal with local drink pairings.
Dead Plant Society: September
September 19th
Sleep Tight Little Garden, or Winterizing Your Garden
September marks our most bountiful growing season in Northern Nevada. If we're lucky, the tomatoes are fruiting in full force, and we're just trying to keep up. Fall also marks the time to start thinking about how to winterize your garden. In this workshop we'll dive into how to put your garden to sleep after its' worked so hard over the summer! We'll cover irrigation, adding amendment, harvesting and overall how to prep your garden for a great next season. Everyone will go home with seeds.
*Opens June 1st
10:00 - 12:30 pm
Adults $25
Children $10
*Scholarships available
Dead Plant Society: October
Preserving the Harvest: Salves & Balms
Fall is a beautiful time to use wax from the bees, dried flowers and herbs from the garden to make healing balms, salves and chapsticks. This workshop will focus on how easy it is to make your own beauty products with minimal ingredients. Everyone will make a salve and a chapstick to take home, adding in their own natural scents and dried flowers from the farm.
*Opens June 1st
October 3rd
9:00 - 12:30 pm
Adults $40
Children $15
*Scholarships available
Dead Plant Society: November
Composting 101
Composting is the easiest way to create a full cycle of nutrients in your garden. From fruit and veggies scraps to BLACK GOLD, there's a compost set up for everyone! We're excited to partner with Soil Solidarity who will lead this workshop and guide you through the basics of composting, what you need to create this microbial powerhouse for your garden, and the different methods of turning trash to treasure. One lucky participant will go home with a composter!
*Opens June 1st
November 7th
10:00 - 12:30 pm
Adults $25
Children $10
*Scholarships available
Little Chefs: PreK & 5-13 years
Little Chefs is our parent-child cooking series hosted by Urban Roots . This Fall's series is for pre-K chefs (ages 2-4 years) and ages 5-13 years on the same Saturday! We will split into age appropriate groups on the day of. These workshops are hands-on, include a tasty recipe and snack, and a farm fresh ingredient to take home.
*We can accommodate all allergies and food preferences!
May 16th
September 12th
October 24th
November 14th
*All classes from 10:00 -12:30 pm
$35 per child
May - BAKE it til you MAKE it: Berry Crumble
Your little chef will become Star Baker in this month’s workshop! We’ll explore measuring and reading a recipe while we bake berries crumbles with sugar smart ingredients. Urban Roots staff will guide you through this recipe, offering helpful tips for reducing sugar in desserts.
September - CHOP, Slice & Dice It: Pizza Party
Let's level up your little chef's skills in the kitchen! In this workshop we'll dive right into knife skills by slicing our way to tasty pizzas cooked in our wood-fired pizza oven! Urban Roots staff will be your sous chefs as your child thrives in the kitchen. Opens 6/1
October - Veggies are STAR: Savory Pancakes
Adding vegetables into our meals can be tricky for all of us! In this workshop your little chef will be encouraged to try new foods by making homemade savory pancakes. They sound strange... but are in fact delicious! Urban Roots staff will share helpful tips and tricks for adding and introducing a rainbow of foods even for your pickiest eater! Opens 6/1
November - BAKE it til you MAKE it: Stuffed Pumpkins
Your little chef will become Star Baker in this month’s workshop! We’ll explore measuring and reading a recipe while we bake a miniature stuffed pumpkins. Urban Roots staff will guide you through this classic recipe, offering helpful tips for baking with young learners.Opens 6/1