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Herb and Spice Holiday Gift Workshops Heighten your senses and cheer at this holiday workshop making fragrant gifts and ornaments to take away. Learn about spices and herbs while crafting seasonal and natural ornaments. Families or groups of four, including adult, must register. Since this is a limited attendance event, we suggest limited adult supervision (i.e. one parent instead of two accompanying child or group of children). We are sorry, walk-ins will not be accepted so everyone can keep a safe social distance. Ages: 6 & up • Fee: $48 / table of four Course #87327 • Wednesday, Dec. 9 • 4-5:30pm Course #87328 • Wednesday, Dec. 9 • 4-5:30pm Course #87330 • Friday, Dec. 11 • 4-5:30pm Course #87331 • Wednesday, Dec. 16 • 4-5:30pm Course #87332 • Friday, Dec. 18 • 4-5:30pm
which paved the way for the development of the city of Richmond’s Office of Community Wealth Building. He served on both the Food Policy Task Force as well as AntiPoverty Taskforce for the City of Richmond and participated as a member of the inaugural Citizen’s Advisory Board for the Office of Community Wealth Building. Presently Chavis is engaged in coordinating innovative and dynamic initiatives around the topics of urban agriculture and local food systems in a culturally relevant way. Ages: 18 & up • Free Course #87627 • Thursday, Sep. 17 • 7-8:30pm
A Beautiful Obsession Jimi Blake, owner and creator of Hunting Brook Gardens and author of “A Beautiful Obsession.”
Jimi Blake spent the last 25 years collecting the choicest plants he could get his hands on for his garden, Hunting Brook in Wicklow, Ireland. Known for his amazing plant combinations, Jimi weaves them together in a unique These lectures will be offered as a live online webinar fusion of tropical, prairie and woodland styles to make a with audience Q&A throughout the presentation. After flamboyant, surprising and experimental garden that is registering, a link will be emailed to you 24 hours prior to overflowing with ideas for enthusiastic gardeners. Enjoy the live webinar. Please ensure your Active Montgomery a visual adventure of Jimi’s lush garden while he offers account is updated with your correct email address. practical lessons from his book, A Beautiful Obsession that inspires new garden projects, rewrites the rule book about combining plants and changes the way you think Racial Equity Through Urban about plants and gardens.
Speaker Series
Greening & Agriculture
Duron Chavis, Urban Farmer, Educator and Changemaker
About Jimi Blake
Our food system works for some in our nation but fails too many people of color, a problem that has only been exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. In this lecture, Duron offers a vision of a healthy and just food system. Sharing the importance of applying an equity lens to our current system, he will diagnose the problems and challenges, identify areas ready for change, and determine ways that we can work together to build a better and more fair system for everyone. Duron will share from his personal experience working in urban agriculture and local food systems as he helps define what it means to build a racially equitable food system—from field to farm to fork—and lay out the necessary steps toward achieving that goal.
Jimi trained in the National Botanic Gardens in Dublin as a horticulturist and was subsequently appointed Head Gardener at Airfield House in Dundrum, Dublin. Jimi is a Gardening Consultant, Planting Designer, and International Lecturer giving talks and presentations all over the world.
About Duron Chavis Duron Chavis started his career in community advocacy working with the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of VA. While there he founded the highly acclaimed Happily Natural Day festival, a weekend long experience that focuses on cultural awareness, health, wellness and social change. In 2009 Duron launched the Richmond Noir Market, a Saturday pop-up farmer’s market targeting low-income communities located in what the USDA has designated as food deserts in Richmond, VA. In 2012 he developed McDonough Community Garden and began transforming green spaces throughout the Richmond Region into urban gardens, farms, orchards, and vineyards. He served as one of 40 community facilitators for dialogues on concentrated poverty throughout the Richmond Region on behalf of Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities,
Ages: 18 & up • Free Course #87628 • Saturday, Oct. 31 • 10-11:30am
Horticultural Classes
These lectures will be offered online. After registering, a link will be emailed to you 24 hours prior to the live webinar. Please ensure your Active Montgomery account is updated with your correct email address.
Conquering Cool Season Edibles Kathy Jentz, Editor/Publisher, Washington Gardener Magazine There are many edible plants that grow best in cooler weather. Try your hand at growing them and enjoy the “fruits”—or veggies—of your labor during the winter months. We’ll cover techniques for lengthening the growing season and what edible plants do best in our Mid-Atlantic climate. Ages: 18 & up • $10 • FOBG: $8 Course #87641 • Saturday, Sep. 26 • 10-11:30am
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