GCS Farmers Market will be here the 2nd Saturday of the month, November -April from 9am - 1pm with over 50 vendors. For vendor information go to www.gcsfarmersmarket.com .
This event is SOLD OUT Please check out other lectures with our Desert Awareness Committee and sign-up early! Join us for an eye-opening evening as we explore the natural pharmacy growing right in our backyard. Nature enthusiasts, aspiring herbalists, and anyone curious about the practical applications of our local desert flora will enjoy learning how to identify these plants and understand their medicinal properties. FORMAT: In-Person – lecture. AGES: Adults 18+, [...]
This event is SOLD OUT Please check out other lectures with our Desert Awareness Committee and sign-up early! Join us for an eye-opening evening as we explore the natural pharmacy growing right in our backyard. Nature enthusiasts, aspiring herbalists, and anyone curious about the practical applications of our local desert flora will enjoy learning how to identify these plants and understand their medicinal properties. FORMAT: In-Person – lecture. AGES: Adults 18+, [...]
Learn tips & techniques for harvesting, handling, processing, prepping, and preparing ten of the most productive Sonoran Desert plants: saguaro, mesquite, mormon tea, prickly pear, ocotillo, wolfberry, jojoba, hackberry, ironwood, and palo verde. Plus learn about seasonality, flavors, varieties, and other fine points of their bounty. FORMAT: In-Person – lecture. AGES: Adults 18+, Youth Ages 14-18 EXPERIENCE LEVEL: Novice PREREQUISITES: None FEE: This event is free and open to the public. [...]
Learn from the "master gardeners" from our Signature Program Desert Awareness Committee how to maintain your desert landscaping and raise healthy plants. You'll learn how you can keep your yard looking like a native lush, colorful desert, but with little water and no pruning -- and also where and what to plant and how to care for it. Topics covered: placement, coverage, color, growth rates, water use, and pruning strategies [...]
Learn design and structure skills plus tips and tricks for making your own flower arrangement. Just in time for Mother's Day, this guided, step-by-step workshop is a great opportunity to spend time with friends and take home a beautiful arrangement!
Create and take home a beautiful, summer bouquet of fresh flowers. Attendees are guided step-by-step through the process of creating a one-of-a-kind floral arrangement and will learn design and structure skills from a seasoned pro.
Food is powerful, and what you eat can help reduce inflammation and improve energy. Learn how to eat well and feel good -- even when the heat is on. What you eat can help reduce inflammation, improve energy, and stabilize blood sugar.
Discover how simple & satisfying it is to make your own classic condiments at home with no preservatives, just pure flavor. In this hands-on demonstration, Janey White and sous chef helper Nicolette Bonnstetter will show you how to whip up favorites like mayonnaise & aioli, mustard, ketchup, and BBQ sauce. Learn how to customize each recipe to suit your taste, and take home a few new favorites to elevate your next meal.
You won't want to miss this annual FREE event! Hosted by our Desert Awareness Committee and held on the patio, the Prickly Pear Fest is a treasured event in our Sonoran Desert. Come learn about the many things you can do with this abundant fruit including harvesting, juicing and flour processing. There will be delicious samples of smoothies, salsa, bread and more!
Discover the beauty and resilience of adeniums, often called the "elegant desert rose", from Master Gardner Debra Moritz. Learn how to grow, care for, and shape these striking succulents known for their sculptural trunks and vibrant blooms. Perfect for beginners and enthusiasts alike, this session will cover watering, soil, pruning, and seasonal care to help your desert rose thrive.
You can live off the desert if you know what to pick and when. Find out more as our Signature Program, Desert Awareness Committee, takes us for a stroll to see food producing plants and learn about harvesting techniques and food preparation ideas... and even taste some recipes from the “Our Tastes of the Desert” recipe book.
Get to know the desert plants used for health and well-being in this exciting hands-on field experience. Learn to identify, prepare and understand medicinal properties of our desert plants. Spend four (4) hours with the Desert Awareness Committee collecting, creating an herb collection journal, using a plant press, preparing herbs properly, and making tinctures and ointments.
Join Master Gardener and Monarch Tagger, Adiane Hopkins, Director of Education at Butterfly Wonderland, as she shares how small changes in your yard can make a big difference for Arizona butterflies, including monarchs. You will also learn why monarchs are tagged, what we have learned by tracking them, and how each of us can contribute to their protection.
Come to our haunted desert for the 7th Annual Prickly Pear Festival! This free, family-friendly event features prickly pear treats and products, demonstrations of juicing, jojoba oil pressing and mesquite flour preparation, plus face painting, caricatures, a haunted-desert photo opportunity, and an interactive storytelling performance. Come in costume and kick off Halloween with fun, food, and desert-inspired festivities for all ages!
Join our signature program, the Desert Awareness Committee (DAC) as they lead a tour of all the wild, edible plants at our Desert Awareness Park. You will receive plenty of tips on Sonoran Desert plant identification, how to harvest, and prepare for eating. Enjoy delicious desert bites and nibbles prepared for all to sample.
Discover the healing power of the Sonoran Desert. Join our signature program, the Desert Awareness Committee, and walk through the desert like a true forager! You will learn to identify, harvest and prepare medicinal plants from the desert that have been used over the centuries by native cultures for healing. Take home your own pressed plant medicinal journal.
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