NYC Lavender Festival and Ju-Bee-Lee: Lavender "Magic Wand" Workshop

301 Comfort Road,New York NY 10004

19 June, 2021

Description

Learn how to make a fragrant and elegant work of art from stems of fresh lavender. Sold out in 2019, back by popular demand, be sure to book early! Learn the traditional Provencal skill whereby lavender flowers are encased in a cage of their own stems with colorful ribbon woven over and under the “bars” of the cage. Create a unique and fragrant work of scent-filled art that will last for decades. Suitable for ages 12 and up. The “NYC Lavender Festival” offers 2 days of tours, maker workshops, harvesting opportunities and fun activities, all connected by “The Lavender Field” on Governors Island, a healing space for community, bees and earth, and the only lavender field in all 5 boroughs of New York. Come by the lavender field at the South Battery on Governors Island and dive into the heady fragrance of lavender, see the field in bloom, and take advantage of spectacular photo opportunities. Sign up on Eventbrite for various workshops and tours. Earth Matter NY seeks to reduce the organic waste misdirected into the garbage stream by encouraging neighbor participation and leadership in composting. The Lavender Field project extends Earth Matter’s overall mission to promote community based composting -- how to make make it, how to use it, and how composting fits into the loop between table and farm.