Join Dan and Laura from Wild Birds Unlimited Nature Shop in Belleville for a presentation and chat about how to attract birds into your backyard. The talk will be about 40 minutes followed by an interactive question and answer time. 11am, Sunday July 12th. Free.

Screenprinting with Plant Pigments

With Shannon Gerard of Plant Parenthood Herb Farm and Studio

Come play with the possibilities of screenprinting onto cotton linen using plant pigments instead of plastic inks! In this workshop we will explore ink making using dye plants and natural binders and learn to screenprint directly onto fabric. Each participant will take home a set of 4 linen dishtowels. All materials are provided. This workshop is suitable for all skill levels. No previous print experience is required.

Workshop facilitator Shannon Gerard is a fibre artist and printmaker, an avid gardener and a professional mischief maker! She teaches Print Media and Publications at OCAD University and runs a publishing imprint called Plant Parenthood on her herb farm in Stirling ON. $60+hst

SOLD OUT but lots of room in the August one! Register here

Woody Wonders: Building Beautiful Habitat from Garden Debris
Every yard produces fallen branches, pruned shrubs, and piles of leaves. You usually haul it all away. But what if it wasn’t waste at all?

In this hands-on outdoor workshop, we’ll explore how to repurpose a variety of woody debris to build beautiful habitat features like dead hedges, hugelkultur mounds, wattle fences, and more. Along the way, we’ll discover the tiny creatures, from beetles and bees to amphibians and fungi, that depend on decaying wood for shelter, food, and reproduction.

You’ll leave with practical ideas, fresh inspiration, and a new way of seeing your yard as a circular system where nothing is wasted, and every brushpile can become both art and habitat. Led by the wonderful Ewa Bednarczuk, Ecologist and Founder of the Neighbourhood Habitat School. All ages/abilities, 1.5hrs, $35+hst

Register here

The Butterflyway Project is a volunteer-led movement that is growing habitat for bees and butterflies in neighbourhoods across Canada. We will have artist and nature lover Dianne Beauregard on site to give out information about the David Suzuki Foundation Butterflyway Project. Native plants are a great way to support our winged friends. We will have a table set up at the front of the nursery on Saturday afternoon. Stop by and say hello!