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June 2019
Medicinal Native Plants for Making Salves | A Workshop with Darcy Williamson
Meet at Sawtooth Botanical Garden at 9:00 Saturday morning begins with an outing into surrounding forests for harvesting herbs, barks and roots for medicinal salve and lip balm making. What we gather will depend upon what the season has provided for us. Bring a sack lunch for our noon break, followed by a recap of plants harvested and their medicinal values in salves and balms. Once we have returned to the Sawtooth Botanical Garden, we will garble (prepare our plant…
Find out more »Medicinal Native Plants for Teas | A Workshop with Darcy Williamson
Meet at Sawtooth Botanical Garden. Sunday morning begins with an outing into surrounding forests for harvesting herbs, barks and roots for making a variety of herbal teas. What we gather will depend upon what the season has provided for us. Bring a sack lunch for our noon break, followed by a recap of plants harvested and their medicinal values in tea as we. Once we have returned to the Sawtooth Botanical Garden, we will garble (prepare our plant material) before…
Find out more »Discovery Club!
For children ages 2 to 5 (+ their adult helper) Wednesdays 10:00-11:00 | June 12 through August 21 Programs are FREE and do not require pre-registration, just come to the Sawtooth Botanical Garden for engaging stories, fun activities, and garden exploring and adventuring centering on the theme of caring for the earth and all its flora and fauna! Children must be accompanied by an adult – thank you!
Find out more »July 2019
Discovery Club!
For children ages 2 to 5 (+ their adult helper) Wednesdays 10:00-11:00 | June 12 through August 21 Programs are FREE and do not require pre-registration, just come to the Sawtooth Botanical Garden for engaging stories, fun activities, and garden exploring and adventuring centering on the theme of caring for the earth and all its flora and fauna! Children must be accompanied by an adult – thank you!
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For children ages 2 to 5 (+ their adult helper) Wednesdays 10:00-11:00 | June 12 through August 21 Programs are FREE and do not require pre-registration, just come to the Sawtooth Botanical Garden for engaging stories, fun activities, and garden exploring and adventuring centering on the theme of caring for the earth and all its flora and fauna! Children must be accompanied by an adult – thank you!
Find out more »Discovery Club!
For children ages 2 to 5 (+ their adult helper) Wednesdays 10:00-11:00 | June 12 through August 21 Programs are FREE and do not require pre-registration, just come to the Sawtooth Botanical Garden for engaging stories, fun activities, and garden exploring and adventuring centering on the theme of caring for the earth and all its flora and fauna! Children must be accompanied by an adult – thank you!
Find out more »Discovery Club!
For children ages 2 to 5 (+ their adult helper) Wednesdays 10:00-11:00 | June 12 through August 21 Programs are FREE and do not require pre-registration, just come to the Sawtooth Botanical Garden for engaging stories, fun activities, and garden exploring and adventuring centering on the theme of caring for the earth and all its flora and fauna! Children must be accompanied by an adult – thank you!
Find out more »Healing in the Garden
Join Katherine Pleasants and several other practitioners for a day to experience various healing modalities at the Sawtooth Botanical Garden. A $20 suggested donation per person 18 and over directly benefits the Sawtooth Botanical Garden. People ages 12-18 suggested donation is $10. Experience Healing Touch, Homeopathy, Meditation in Nature, Biomat, Mediation with Sound Bowls, Melt Method and Energetic Healing in 20-minute intervals throughout the Sawtooth Botanical Garden. Registration information coming soon!
Find out more »Discovery Club!
For children ages 2 to 5 (+ their adult helper) Wednesdays 10:00-11:00 | June 12 through August 21 Programs are FREE and do not require pre-registration, just come to the Sawtooth Botanical Garden for engaging stories, fun activities, and garden exploring and adventuring centering on the theme of caring for the earth and all its flora and fauna! Children must be accompanied by an adult – thank you!
Find out more »August 2019
Discovery Club!
For children ages 2 to 5 (+ their adult helper) Wednesdays 10:00-11:00 | June 12 through August 21 Programs are FREE and do not require pre-registration, just come to the Sawtooth Botanical Garden for engaging stories, fun activities, and garden exploring and adventuring centering on the theme of caring for the earth and all its flora and fauna! Children must be accompanied by an adult – thank you!
Find out more »Discovery Club!
For children ages 2 to 5 (+ their adult helper) Wednesdays 10:00-11:00 | June 12 through August 21 Programs are FREE and do not require pre-registration, just come to the Sawtooth Botanical Garden for engaging stories, fun activities, and garden exploring and adventuring centering on the theme of caring for the earth and all its flora and fauna! Children must be accompanied by an adult – thank you!
Find out more »Healthy Hands
Do your hands get tired and sore after gardening? Have you limited or discontinued gardening because of your hand health? The MELT Method therapy can get you back in the garden and restore the health of your hands. Arthritis and Neuropathy can be managed with this gentle self-care technique. Energize and repair tired hands at this life-changing one hour “HEALTHY HANDS” event. For more information about MELT Method, go to www.painfreein5b.com Saturday August 17, 10:00-11:00 at Sawtooth Botanical Garden (11…
Find out more »Discovery Club!
For children ages 2 to 5 (+ their adult helper) Wednesdays 10:00-11:00 | June 12 through August 21 Programs are FREE and do not require pre-registration, just come to the Sawtooth Botanical Garden for engaging stories, fun activities, and garden exploring and adventuring centering on the theme of caring for the earth and all its flora and fauna! Children must be accompanied by an adult – thank you!
Find out more »September 2019
Postponed: Great Landscape Evergreens with Tony McCammon
This class will be rescheduled: With increased pest problems and other environmental factors affecting common evergreens such as Colorado Spruce and White Pine, we need to add more diversity to our plant palette. Many species of conifers and broadleaf evergreens can thrive in varying types of environmental conditions offering beauty, function and privacy in the landscape. This lecture will offer many suitable screening trees and shrubs for the high elevation landscapes of Idaho. Learn how to plant and properly take…
Find out more »Garden Feng Shui with Hillary Anderson
Learn the fundamentals of BTB Feng Shui for your garden design. Bring a drawing or satellite photo of your house and garden. Bring photos of gardens you admire. Cost is sliding scale donation.
Find out more »The Art and Philosophy of Stone Balance with Gabe Embler
An afternoon with stone balance artist Gabriel Embler, in which you will learn the basics of stone balance and the life lessons that he has gleaned through this meditative art form. The quieting of mind and body, the meditative state thereby achieved, and the undeniable reality of impermanence. Balance, whether in life or in art is never a permanent attainment. It is more about the practice than the end result. That being said, it sure is fun to push yourself…
Find out more »October 2019
Oh Deer! Winterizing Your Landscape from Foragers
How to protect your plants from the animals foraging at high elevation in Idaho Plant selection Fun and engaging question and answer session Renowned speaker, Horticulture Specialist, Tony McCammon Pre-Registration required Meet at Sawtooth Botanical Garden or learn from home-- Tony McCammon will attend via Zoom Click here to register
Find out more »MELT Method for Wellness
MELT improves: flexibility, alignment & posture, exercise routines, sleep, digestion, and overall well-being. MELT reduces: wrinkles, aches & pain, cellulite, tension & stress, headaches & migraines, and the risk of injury. It is a gentle, hands-off method using specialized techniques with four different specialized balls on the hands and feet. It targets connective tissue. Instructor Shana Barry is experienced, knowledgeable, kind and encouraging. Click here to register
Find out more »November 2019
Herbal Soap Making with Darcy Williamson – CLASS IS FULL
Darcy's favorite soap is pine sap and osage orange: softening and lathery. Other woodsy essential oils will also be available. You'll go home with 18 bars of soap, a booklet of recipes and ideas, and the plastic soap-making bucket for future batches. Click here to register Maximum of 8-10 students: if we fill the Saturday class early enough, Darcy will add a Sunday class.
Find out more »December 2019
Wreath Making
We'll have an array of branches and botanical decor for you to combine into a beautiful wreath (16" frame), holiday swag, or table decoration. A fun evening in our visitor center and greenhouse. Cost is $30 for members and $35 for non-members, per person per wreath. Register here
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