About this Event
Join us for a free, hands-on class on how the garden can flavor your meals long after the harvest. You’ll explore dried herbs and spices and learn to combine them with salt.
Along the way, you’ll smell, taste, and experiment. Then you’ll create your own seasoning blend to take home. We’ll also talk about how simple mixtures can transform everyday cooking.
This event is part of Recipes & Rituals for Community Care. Explore the role of plants in personal and communal well-being with guest herbalists, healing artists, and wellness practitioners.
FACILITATOR
Sharron Cannon is a horticultural wellness educator, curriculum developer, and former film and television executive whose work bridges plant wisdom, cultural storytelling, and community healing. She created the Food as Medicine curriculum to help people reconnect with the relationship between food, herbs, and well-being through accessible, hands-on learning experiences. Rooted in generations of traditional knowledge and a deep commitment to collective care, she believes gardens are spaces where health, creativity, and community can flourish.
ACCESSIBILITY
- The kitchen/classroom is wheelchair accessible; with advance notice we can add a mat path across the greenhouse’s pebbled ground (garden entrance has a small raised threshold; garden paths are grass).
- Tables adjust height; backless benches/stools available.
- Kitchen is shared—we avoid peanuts but can’t guarantee a nut-free space; water provided in refillable pitchers.
- First aid on-site; nearest AED is one building away.
- Nearest restrooms are ~1 min walk; a gender-neutral restroom is available by key from staff.
- Not a scent-free space (essential oils used in class), though we ventilate and welcome masking/distancing.
- Other access needs? Contact [email protected].
All Greenhouse Education Center events happen rain or shine.
Event venue & nearby stays
The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park, 679 Riverside Dr, New York, United States
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