
May 2025
Learning with Nature | Design an Ecological Landscape
Learn the basics of ecological landscape design and how you can apply these principles to your community or home landscape from Grace Farms Director of Horticulture Kimberly Kelly. We will explore how to work with your landscape, increase biodiversity all the while creating a more resilient low maintenance landscape. A short classroom portion will be followed by a walk of the ecological landscape of Grace Farms.
Find out more »Grace Farms Family Tour
Families, follow along an interactive tour to explore the River building as it twists and turns through Grace Farms’ natural landscape. Build models, play with materials used to create our homes and community spaces, and discover how a building’s design can reduce its impact on the environment.
Find out more »Dinner with a Purpose featuring Indré Rockefeller
Join us for an inspiring spring evening dinner at Grace Farms featuring Indré Rockefeller, Founder of The Circulatory Project and Co-Founder of Paravel. Set against the serene backdrop of Grace Farms' 80 acres, the evening will feature a locally sourced, sustainable meal in the Commons, refreshing cocktails, and a thought-provoking conversation on sustainability, entrepreneurship, and the future of circularity. Paravel has redefined sustainable travel with its innovative, carbon-neutral luggage, upcycling millions of plastic bottles while setting new standards for eco-friendly…
Find out more »Journey into the World of Tea
Did you know that herbal tea isn’t actually tea? Explore the distinction between tea — the beverage made from steeping leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant— and tisanes, caffeine-free herbal infusions commonly called “herbal tea” with Grace Farms Tea Expert Frank Kwei. Taste hot and cold versions of different herbal blends while learning the origins of herbs and the different methods of preparation. Journey into the World of Tea is a series of tranquil and in-depth explorations of tea offering guests a…
Find out more »Art in Nature
Join Grace Farms Assistant Director of Education and Artist Mary Janacek for a creative workshop where you’ll learn how to craft your own nature journal. Spend an afternoon making a unique hand-bound nature journal to record inspiration from the River building and surrounding 80 acres of meadows, woodlands, and other thriving habitats. This workshop will utilize basic bookbinding tools and techniques to create one-of-a-kind journals. Then, follow a guided tour of the landscape to pause to collect observations in your customized book. Adults of…
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