Tag Archive for: Jennifer Smith

Garden Talk Series: Gravel Gardening
Saturday , 12:00 p.m.
November 7th
Ages 16-99+

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Learn how to garden a new way, in gravel!

What You’ll Learn:

Derek Jarman, Beth Chatto, and Jeff Epping, just to name a few, show us how to create breathtaking gardens in gravel.

What You Leave With:

Tricky spots, contaminated soils, urban settings, low budgets, or simply a desire to garden a different way, gravel gardening is a beautiful, pollinator friendly way to garden. History of gravel gardens, review beautiful gardens to inspire, and discuss construction, planting, and care of your new gravel garden.

Jennifer Smith: (information)

“Smith co-taught a UC-DAAP course (Herbaceous plants and the New Perennial Movement), has spoken for many garden clubs, The Midwest Native Plant Society, Tri-State green industry conference, and the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens (Native Plant Symposium) to name a few.
Some of her gardens have won awards and was featured on the CNC nature plant garden tour.”

 

Instructor: Jennifer Smith

Supply List

All Supplies included.

Garden Talk Series: Planting for Pollinators
Saturday , 12:00 p.m.
October 24th
Ages 16-99+

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Learn how to plant a garden for pollinators, be it in the sun or shade.

What You’ll Learn:

Sire evaluation, soil prep, plant selection and arrangement, and garden care. How to design a winter garden and a soft landing garden.

What You Leave With:

A clear understanding of how to plant a garden that will be a haven for pollinators and birds. We will review design ideas, designers to follow-study, books to read and of course great plants to consider.

Jennifer Smith: (information)

“Smith co-taught a UC-DAAP course (Herbaceous plants and the New Perennial Movement), has spoken for many garden clubs, The Midwest Native Plant Society, Tri-State green industry conference, and the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens (Native Plant Symposium) to name a few.
Some of her gardens have won awards and was featured on the CNC nature plant garden tour.”

 

Instructor: Jennifer Smith

Supply List

All Supplies included.

Garden Planning with Jennifer Smith!
Saturdays , 9:00 p.m.
October 10th & October 17th
Ages 16-99+

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Love gardening, but need a little help in the planning process to design a new garden or update an existing garden?

Design your own garden! Award-winning garden designer Jennifer Smith will teach you how to design your next garden.

What You’ll Learn:

Site evaluation, plant selection, soil assessment, basic garden design principles, how to achieve continuous blooms in the garden, create winter interest in the garden, and garden care considerations.

What You Leave With:

A scaled drawing of their new garden with plant list.

Jennifer Smith: (information)

“Smith co-taught a UC-DAAP course (Herbaceous plants and the New Perennial Movement), has spoken for many garden clubs, The Midwest Native Plant Society, Tri-State green industry conference, and the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens (Native Plant Symposium) to name a few.
Some of her gardens have won awards and was featured on the CNC nature plant garden tour.”

 

Instructor: Jennifer Smith

Supply List

All Supplies included.

Handful of Stitches: Introduction to Embroidery
Friday, 9:00 a.m.
October 24 – November 14
Ages 16-99+

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Do you want to learn hand embroidery but find the number of stitches intimidating? Then join us as we explore a handful of stitches!

Learn to create beautiful designs in hand embroidery with a handful of stiches. Students will learn the basics of hand embroidery, including how to create their own design. We’ll take inspiration from modern embroidery artists who create traditional and not so traditional works of hand embroidery while we will stitch in 4″ hoops.

What You’ll Learn:

Attendees will learn how to design for hand embroidery, loading fabric in a hoop, threading the needle, separating threads, using multiple thread colors with each stitch, handful of very useful and versatile stitches, and how to create depth and texture with stitches

What You’ll Leave With:

This four-week class week class offers ample time for in classroom instruction, insights and inspirations from accomplished hand embroidery artists, a finished embroidery piece in a 4″ hoop of the students creation- a one-of-a-kind piece of work.

Instructor: Jennifer Smith

Supply List

All Supplies included.

Recording in Stitching
Thursday, 6:00 p.m.
October 22 – November 12
Ages 16-99+

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Hand embroidery is often used to make a record of one’s observations: the temperature, number of bees in the garden, interactions with others, pages read in a book, one’s mood- what that person finds most important to them. This 30-day stitching practice guides students to focus on something of particular importance to them, something worth recording in stitches. It is a mediative practice, a study in daily observations, permission to set aside each day just for oneself to observe and stitch, and a social/community experience.

In this month-long stitches practice we will cultivate a daily practice of taking time to reflect, observe, and record what is important to you. We will also learn new ways to stitch, how to work in found objects, and express ourselves with hand embroidery. This class is meditative, part social, and part creative exercise.

What You’ll Learn:

We will learn a variety of stitches to use to record something of note and importance to each student. We will learn to slow our pace, be observant and take the time to record, each day, what we observe, feel or experience. Each day the students stitch to record their observations, a stitched diary if you will. At the end of the month, each student will have a stitched record of what they observed, felt, or experienced- a story in stitches. Students will learn to gift themselves time to simply be. How many of can say we take enough time for ourselves? Not Many! We will learn ways to record our observations with our stitches.

What You’ll Leave With:

A thirty day stitched journal, if you will, a record of observations for a month created with hand stiches that tells the story of what we learned with our observations and a new practice of giving ourselves permission to take time for ourselves. Your personal story in stitches, and a new practice of setting time aside, each day, to stitch and be present.

A thirty day record,

Instructor: Jennifer Smith

Supply List

All Supplies included.