NYC Lavender Festival and Ju-Bee-Lee: Paint and Plant a Pot

301 Comfort Road,New York NY 10004

20 June, 2021

Description

Design your own hand painted pot, add a lavender plant, and achieve instant serenity! NY artist Meagan J. Meehan will show you how. Tap into your inner artist while learning about compost and the soil ecosystem. Paint your own terra cotta pot under the guidance of NY artist Meagan J. Meehan, and then learn the perfect planting technique from Earth Matter apprentices. Using our gold standard potting mix you'll plant a baby lavender sprout to take home and start your own lavender field, one pot at a time. 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.