Learn the art of plant pressing and preservation
with Kris Garnier.
In this beginner workshop, we will explore what is growing on the biologically diverse, wild spaces on White Feather Farm. You will up your plant identification skills, take field notes, gain interesting plant facts and learn the calming steps plant pressing. Enjoy creating informative and beautiful herbarium specimens and pressed wildflower art. Additionally, Kris will guide you through the history of herbariums to current, enlighten you with some notable scientists breaking barriers in the plant world!
On our first session, we will walk the grounds at White Feather farm, collect and identify both ornamental and wild plants, take field notes, and press them. The next two sessions we will work in The Studio at our sister property (just a few miles from the farm) learning mounting techniques, gathering information on our plants and will finish with student presentations. The end result….frame-able keepsake and a deeper appreciation of what grows around us.
This is a three part workshop held on:
Thursday June 6 (5:30-8pm)
Thursday June 20 (5:30-8pm)
Thursday June 27 (5:30-8pm)
Attendees are required to attend all of the sessions listed above. Space is limited!
Tickets are available at sliding scale $45-$60:
2 available tickets at $60
2 available tickets at $50
1 available tickets at $45
learn more about our inspiration for sliding scale framework here
For the past 25 years Kris Garnier has been overseeing greenhouses, gardens and indoor plant collections for both businesses and estates throughout the Hudson Valley. She spends her free time learning about plants, where-ever they may be growing, by exploring in the woods, fields, on mountain trails, stream sides, road sides, overgrown lots and even cracks in a sidewalk! Her goal is to offer her enthusiasm about plants to get people on their lifelong path of passion for the natural world around us! Kris has earned a certification in botany through The New York Botanical Garden and is a New York State Licensed Guide, her artwork is sold privately