Community Workshops & Events
Upcoming Events
Planning Your Garden Workshop, Monday, May 4th, 2026, from 5pm- 6:30pm at Nuestras Raíces.
Join River and Rose for a hands-on workshop about how to vision, design, and plant your garden!
Making Ground: In Practice with the Soil, Sunday, May 31st, 2026, from 2pm - 5pm, at Grow Food Northampton, in collaboration with A.P.E. Gallery.
Join us at The River Rose Farm to explore how the ground beneath us is shifting. We will meet the land in the floodplain of the Mill River, and notice where the ground has been washed away, where it has been carried, and where it is being created. We will study how living roots through history—from the roots of the mulberry trees during the time of the silk mills to today's clover and elderberry—have built soil from sunlight, making ground literally.
Past Events
Dreaming of Spring: A Garden Planning Workshop, Sunday, February 1st, 2026, from 1pm - 3pm at the Lilly Library Community Room in Florence, MA. Free and open to the public.
Seed Saving Workshop, Thurday, November 13th, 2025 from 4:30pm- 5:30pm at Nuestras Raíces.
Learn from River and Rose all about seed saving and why it matters. We will specifically dive into the details of seed saving corn, beans, and squash and share stories of seeds.
Seed Saving La Milpa, Saturday, September 20th, 2025 from 2-4pm at Grow Food Northampton.
Learn from River and Rose all about the brilliance of La Milpa - growing corn, beans, and squash in harmony- through spending time with the plants, learning about seed saving these crops, and processing the corn into tortillas. Register here.
Eco-Freako Film with Michelle Trujillo, the weekend of July 19th and 20th, 2025
Soil Testing for Soil Health workshop Grow Food Northampton, Sunday, April 20th, 2025 from 2-4pm
Dreaming of Spring: A Garden Planning Workshop, Thursday, March 20th, 2025, from 5:30pm-7:30pm at the Lilly Library Community Room in Florence, MA. Free and open to the public.
Seeding for the Future, Sunday, March 23rd, 2025 from 2pm- 5pm at the A.P.E. Gallery in Northampton. Free and open to the public.
Climate Action Now’s Monthly Gathering, “Gardening for the Future in Western Mass”, Monday, January 27th, 2025, from 7pm-8:30pm, meeting online on zoom. Register here.
Dreaming of Spring: A Garden Planning Workshop, Sunday, January 26th, 2025, from 2pm-4pm at the Lilly Library Community Room in Florence, MA. Free and open to the public.
Grow Food Northampton Fall Workshop Series, “Building Soil Health as you put your Garden to Bed for the Season”, Sunday September 22nd, 2024.
Climate Justice Symposium, Smith College, “Widening our Approaches to Farming in the Face of Climate Change”, Friday, September 20th, 2024.
Grow Food Northampton Climate Adaptive Gardening Series: “No-till Practices for Soil Health”, Saturday, April 13th, 2024.
Mxed Green Studio, How to plan your climate resilient garden, Saturday, January 20th, 2024 from 2-4pm, at Mxed Greens Studio in Easthampton, MA. Directions and accessibility info here.