This class will blend indoor and outdoor activities, from creating nature-based art projects, to planting seedlings, and even taking trips out to the FRR garden. We’ll learn the 5 R's of sustainability — Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Rot (compost) — and we’ll use our garden skills to turn the outdoors into beautiful works of art!

BACKYARD ARTISTS WITH JOY - FRIDAY - 1st Period

$495.00

Joy Hanken, is not only a impassioned cook and talented artist, she has been an avid and celebrated gardener for 30 years as well! She calls herself "the quiet botanist," as she loves to do sculptural flower arrangements as well as grow fruits and vegetables. She also is a "gardening advocate:" Joy was the representative for the Greenwich/Cumberland Community Garden in the South End for over 10 years. For the last 25 years, Joy has lovingly built and tended a magnificent vegetable and flower garden at her cottage in Westport, RI (read about Joy's Westport garden in this 2012 Globe Magazine article: https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2012/04/14/artist-garden/fzIKsF6Gg6iAWdWXrWAGxM/story.html). A longtime Coolidge Corner resident, Joy is now a member of the Lawton Park Community Garden where she served as a consultant to Brookline's planning committee for the Lawton Park Community Garden and where she holds workshops on tomato planting. Joy is delighted and eager to share her enthusiasm and love for gardening with your children!

BACKYARD ARTISTS WITH JOY - FRIDAY - 1st Period

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