GCP Community Lughnasadh Swap and Prop

3409 Connecticut Avenue Northwest,Washington DC 20008

01 August, 2021

Description

Please join us in this community building event where we can connect with each other through sharing plants, food, and drink! Celebrate the harvest season and grow your plant family by swapping siblings and propagating with us at Femme Fatale, DC! Show off your secret recipe too by bringing a dish to our potluck. As mindful gardeners, we will be grounding ourselves in the beginning of the harvest season aka Lughnasadh. It is the halfway point to the fall equinox. It’s the moment to show our infinite gratitude to Mother Earth, and hope for future harvests to come. Date: August 1, 2021 Address: Femme Fatale DC 3409 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008 (Tickets are free if you bring 5 or more plants or cuttings, or if you bring a potluck dish.) __________________________________________________________ Masks will be required when people are crowding around the groups of plants. We will also take your contact info at the door, just as an added safety precaution. _________________________________________________________ 1. Before the Swap! Please leave a comment with a list plants you may bring, so that we know what category signs to make for organizing. (If you don't know at this moment, DM me on @glassceilingplants later. Please and thank you!) Try to label your plants with their: Name Your social media handle Light/ water requirements, etc. _______ If you're bringing a dish please leave a comment with what entree, dessert, or alcoholic/ drink, etc. you will bring. (Again, DM me later if you need to.) _______ August 1: Day of Event 2. Set up is from 2-5 pm. Please drop your plants, food, and drinks off any time August 1 from 3 pm to 6 pm. You can organize your plants in the different categories we will make. We would be thrilled to have extra dishes and plants, if you have any to share! Also extra volunteers are always welcome. 3. Event is 6 - 9 pm. Plants and food are stories. We will have a short share and tell session where you have the opportunity to share a special memory, association, or special use for the plant or food you brought. The swap will be done in shifts of 3. Each person will be counted off into group 1, 2, or 3. Each group will take turns choosing a plant from the lot. Each "shift" will be about 20 seconds, and we will cycle through until about all the plants are gone, and do a free for all for the stragglers that are left over. If there's time left over, we will have a crash course in plant propagation where you can propagate more plants to take home. We may also collect seed present in the garden! 4. Break down is at 9 pm. ___________________________________________________________________ The pictures included in this post are some of the mother plants we will be propagating daughters from, and some plants you could WIN by entering in the GIVEAWAY! There will be 5 winners who can choose their pick of one for sale plant from the shop. Available plants include red Abyssinian bananas, Washingtonian palms, Meyer lemons, potted papyrus, passionflower vine, and more. Follow @glassceilingplants on instagram, share on your story, like and tag someone in the comment section to be entered. Each additional tag is an additional entry. Each winner receives one plant. As always, GCP plants come with trouble shooting from a professional horticulturist, lil’ old me. __________________________________________________________________________ Also please bare with us as this is the first time we are organizing a plant swap and potluck at Femme Fatale DC. Afterwards, pop into the facebook.com/groups/glassceilingplants/, where we can continue to support each other in growing as mindful gardeners. Find out more about GCP at glassceilingplants.wordpress.com. ____________________________________________________ Hope to see you there! Caroline Hooks Owner of glassceilingplants