EDUCATION
Workshop: Building a Dry Stone Wall Saturday, October 21, 9 am – 3 pm Members: $75; Nonmembers: $85 Dress for outdoor work and bring safety glasses, heavy gloves, sturdy, waterproof footwear and a bag lunch. Join stone mason artist Mark Mendel for a hands-on program covering the basics of dry stone wall building, including planning, layout, and demonstrations on cutting and fitting. The morning will consist of a lecture, a walk through the garden to view a variety of stone walls, and site preparation. Students will learn how to set up a batter frame and cut stone, and will practice laying stones to create structural integrity through interlocking placement. Following the demonstrations, students will work on a dry stone wall and practice wall-building. The workshop will pay special attention to building a freestanding wall using fieldstone.
Lecture/Field Study: Extending the Season’s Harvest Growing Vegetables for Four Seasons Sunday, October 22, 10 am – 4 pm Cost: $85 (Co-enrolled with Horticulture Certificate Program) Learn how to extend the season’s harvest and enjoy your own garden greens throughout the late fall and early spring months with farmer/educator Pete Salinetti. Consider growing under cover in an unheated greenhouse, cold frame or high/low poly tunnels, and learn techniques needed to achieve a true fourseason harvest. Investigate a variety of structures and learn the pros and cons of each. Crop selection, no-till soil preparation, timing, planting, cultivation and harvesting will be covered, with a focus on early and late-season production. Following the lecture, Pete will lead a field study to Woven Roots Farm in Tyringham, MA, and will explain season-extension structures and the various growing techniques.
Art Class: Colors of Fall: Drawing and Coloring the Harvest Friday, Saturday & Sunday, November 3 - 5, 10 am – 4 pm Members: $315; Nonmembers: $330 Recommended for students with some colored pencil experience Please bring a bag lunch. Celebrate autumn by capturing the colors, patterns and textures of the season’s bounty with artist Carol Ann Morley. Using a three-step process of guided instruction, make a compelling portrait of Indian corn with its multi-colored kernels or choose a gourd with wondrous patterns and textures, bringing them to life with the versatile colored pencil. Begin your art journey with an accurate outline drawing, which serves as a map of your subject’s dimensions. Follow up with a tonal graphite study of volumetric form and depth and complete your study, exploring color mixing to select colors that will give your final art work the right amount of contrast, balance and richness. A materials list is available at www.berkshirebotanical.org.
Workshop/ Field Study: Landscape Design Clinic with Walt Cudnohufsky Saturday, October 28, 9:30 am – 4:30 pm Cost: $125 (Co-enrolled with Horticulture Certificate Program) This fast-paced, information-saturated clinic will introduce design students, homeowners and others to opportunities to problemsolve the design process, leading to the basic conceptual elements of a landscape master plan. All attendees will participate in the process of observing and designing, and will come away with coherent examples of how design happens. An active discussion format will explore common design principles. A step-by-step PowerPoint presentation will focus the discussion later in the afternoon. The field trip will be held rain or shine.
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