Gardeners can use kitchen and yard waste as components of a home composting system, reducing the need for bringing in outside additives into your garden. Home compost can also be used to produce home-grown fertilizers in the form of compost tea* – a liquid, nutritionally rich, well-balanced, organic supplement made by steeping aged compost in […]
From Plant to Plate: Garden Cooking for the Whole Family
Learn how local, sustainable and healthy cooking can make big difference to the health of your family and the planet. Fun for the whole family! Come out and help harvest from the Edible Garden and get tips on planting, buying local and putting sustainable practices into play in your own kitchen. We’ll even show […]
Lunch And Learn: Gardening For Butterflies
Many people think that butterfly-friendly gardens just include colorful flowers full of nectar, but that is only part of the story. Learn about planting appropriate host plants for caterpillars and adding other landscape features to help butterflies flourish. Bernheim Lunch & Learn programs are designed for adults who enjoy spending time outdoors with others and […]
Bernheim Pollinators: Butterflies as Pollinators
Did you know that butterflies taste with their feet? When a butterfly lands on a flower, it will tap the flower and leaves of the plant to make sure it is either a nectar or host plant. This will cause the tongue, or proboscis, to uncoil and extend into the flower. Tapping the host plant […]