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FALL 2025 <\/strong>Events and Workshops!<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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September 26 | 5-7pm \u2014 Ecopreneurship: Branding & Marketing for Herbalists with Tobias Fox and Roxana Marroquin<\/b><\/strong><\/h3>\n

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PAST <\/strong>Events and Workshops<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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MARCH 27 2:30-4:30pm<\/em>:<\/strong> Clean-up at the garden! As the weather grows warmer, the time has come to prepare the garden for another bountiful season of growth and harvest. Join RU-Eco club students and the RU Pantry+ in a clean up and build out to make sure that the beds are prepared for our community of gardeners, chefs, students, and staff alike. All hands on deck!<\/p>\n

APRIL 3 2:30-4pm<\/em>:<\/strong> The Healing Garden\u2019s annual seed exchange! Join Rutgers alumni and artist Anne Percoco in a workshop highlighting the overlap between art and nature, ending with the burial of a time capsule of seeds buried on the Healing Garden grounds. Afterwards, join us at the Paul Robeson Center Gallery for an exhibition\/performance about the tidal mudflats of the Passaic River by PRG 2024 Sci-Artist in Residence andrea haenggi, from 5-7pm.<\/p>\n

APRIL 10 2:30-5pm<\/em>:<\/strong> Figure drawing at the garden! Join Rutgers professor Layqa Nuna Yawar in capturing the beauty of our growing garden. Supplies will be provided. Afterwards, the fun continues with the Price Institute at the Newark Public Library-Main Branch Auditorium (4th Floor) for our next installment of Our Newark Futures at 6:30pm, where Yawar will discuss an ecoart project in the garden and requests your feedback.<\/p>\n

APRIL 17 3-5pm<\/em>:<\/strong> \u201cWhere does the Sunflower go?\u201d is a collaboration between the Price Institute, Humanities Action Lab, and others in the community, sponsored by Audible, to think more about what it means to have a garden with plants that removes toxins from the soil, known as phytoremediation. The workshop will guide us to think about how to make community-based projects sustainable and truly beneficial to the community.<\/p>\n

APRIL 24 1-3pm<\/em>:<\/strong> RU-Eco Plant Sale. Come purchase some plants and support the new RU-Eco club at Rutgers!<\/p>\n

APRIL 25 12-2pm:<\/em><\/strong> In recognition of the Lenape people of New Jersey, the Healing Garden will be installing Land Acknowledgement signs. Lunch will be served.<\/p>\n

MAY 1 6-8pm<\/em>:<\/strong> Film Screening at the Garden! As the semester comes to a close, join American Studies M.A graduate Emily Gioberti as she completes her capstone with a showing of the rarely-seen 1971 documentary Black Rodeo. Black Rodeo, directed by Jeff Kanew, shows one of the largest Black Rodeos held on the East Coast, when the Wild West made its way to New York City. Cowboys, Harlemites, and even Muhammad Ali all make an appearance on-screen as we learn more about the role of urban cowboys in the present and the history of Black cowboys in the 19th century. Afterwards, we\u2019ll hear from an American Studies panel breaking down the importance of Black representation in the media. Food will be provided!<\/p>\n

JUNE 14 11am-2pm<\/em>:<\/strong> The Health is Wealth Herbal Festival! Including various workshops, an herbalist market, and more! More Information TBA.<\/p>\n

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Follow us at @pricehealinggarden on Instagram for more information!<\/p>\n

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SPRING GARDEN CLEAN UP!<\/strong><\/h5>\n

MARCH 22, 2024 @ The Healing Garden!
\nTime: 10am-12pm Noon
\nFree and open to the public<\/p>\n

Join us for our first event of the season and meet folks at the garden!<\/p>\n

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The Greater Newark Sustainable Farming Practices and Local Entrepreneurship Program<\/strong><\/h2>\n
This FREE workshop program was supported by the Northeast SARE Professional Development Program<\/h5>\n

MAY 20 & 21, 2023 9am-6pm EST<\/h4>\n

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ABOUT<\/strong><\/h5>\n

The Greater Newark Sustainable Farming Practices and Local Entrepreneurship Program<\/strong> will provide a 2 full-day workshop intensive for Greater Newark area Farmer\/Service Provider participants to learn different Indigenous and sustainable farming practices and be advised by trainers from the program workshops through their work directly with training farmers.<\/p>\n

Hands-on experiential learning from soil testing to the development of self-designed demonstration beds and plant-based products, as well as additional readings, presentations, and access to trainers as advisors will help farmers learn sustainable methods and framings to rethink their training practices and business models and as they apply them. The workshops will be followed by a year-long demonstration bed project.<\/p>\n

Service providers from the Munsee Three Sisters Medicinal Farm, Urban Agricultural Cooperative, Newark Science and Sustainability, and Elevate Newark will lead each workshop. These workshops include training on traditional Indigenous medicinal herbs with the Munsee Three Sisters Medicinal Farm, led by knowledge bearers of the Turtle Clan of the Ramapough Lunaape; soil testing and in-depth composting methods and local policies from the Urban Agricultural Cooperative; and local farm management, business, and networking through Newark Science and Sustainability and Elevate Newark\u2019s workshops on local entrepreneurship in markets that include the holistic health and aromatherapy industry.<\/p>\n

The Healing Garden at Rutgers University will serve as an onsite demonstration space where farmers and service providers will teach farmers through a series of workshops and year-long demonstration bed project that will run for Spring 2023-Fall 2024.<\/p>\n

As farmers complete each workshop, they attain digital badges acknowledging their completion of the workshop programs. At the end of the program, they also will have completed a demonstration plot onsite that illustrates one or more specific aspects of the program that they have learned and will be implementing and teaching at their farm. Participants and their organizations will also be included on an interactive map of the farming landscape in the region, incorporating their demonstration plot on sustainable farming methods and their local farming businesses into the larger context of farms in the Greater Newark and Northern New Jersey region.<\/p>\n

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THE WORKSHOPS<\/strong><\/h5>\n

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Regional Weeds as Medicine<\/strong><\/p>\n

Learn about plants that may be considered \u201cweeds,\u201d but in fact have long been important to our region as medicinal plants. Develop educational handouts on weeds and medicinal benefits and learn through hands-on practice in terms of identifying and learning about propagating these plants and creating healing products with beeswax and plant extracts for your farm, business, and community.<\/p>\n

Faculty\/Trainer:<\/strong> Michaeline Picaro<\/p>\n

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Ecopreneurship for Herbalists & Urban Growers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Workshop Description:\u00a0<\/strong>An Ecopreneur is a self-employed, autonomous, ecologically responsible\u00a0individual helping to build sustainable communities.\u00a0Launch your own business utilizing\u00a0herbs and fresh produce!<\/p>\n