Salted Spade Garden Workshops 2026
All workshops will be held outdoors in the garden at 97 County Road 2150 North, Mahomet (this is our old location and not what currently shows as Salted Spade on Google Maps)
SPADE STUDIO (10:00-11:30am)
Each workshop is $20/child and any child age 6-12+ is welcome! We ask that you sign up at least one week prior to the date of the workshop. Classes will cap at 15 kids.
Dates: June 4, July 2, July 30
Our garden is a classroom where we learn and grow together. Each Spade Studio session is a hands-on workshop designed to create a love for gardening and nature in kids.
DIY NATURE PRESS - JUNE 4
Discover how to preserve leaves and flowers using the technique of pressing. Each gardener will craft their own wood press, gather some beautiful nature treasures from the garden, and create some pressed art to take home.
I SPY HERB - JULY 2
Join us for a sensory garden adventure! We will explore, touch, and smell the herbs growing in the garden, then make our own lavender bath salts and scented sachets. Each gardener will discover some basic transplanting skills as they pot up a mini herb garden to care for at home.
PETAL POWER - JULY 30
Celebrate the beautiful blooms by joining us in the garden for a morning of floral fun! Each child will pick their favorite flowers, learn some basic floral arranging skills, and design a custom take-home bouquet! We will also discover the art of petal pounding to create some unique, colorful prints.
GARDEN STORIES (10:00-10:45am)
There is no cost to attend Garden Stories. This event is designed for ages 2-5 with an adult, and siblings are always welcome!
Dates: June 18, July 16, August 6
Come listen to some stories under the shade trees by the garden. We will also explore the garden, play games, sing songs, and create our own take-home garden art!
Meet Wendy! She lives at The Saltbox and leads our youth summer classes. Wendy has decades of experience in the garden from when she was a little girl helping grow vegetables on the farm to gardening for her own family and even helping Seth put together market baskets for the 4-H fair! Although no longer teaching in the classroom, Wendy is a teacher by trade and still uses this gift whenever the opportunity arises. With her creativity in the mix, learning is always fun!
Our garden is a place where we inhale the fresh beauty all around as we continually learn and grow. We carry out familiar routines and try new things too. In the garden we observe the tiniest of details as we partake in God’s grand design of food grown for human nourishment. It’s a special place to us, and we love to share this space with others who are either interested in just seeing how our vegetables are grown or getting in the dirt and taking in the joy of picking a fresh tomato off the vine.
We especially love to see kids exploring in the garden. Each summer our kids spend a lot of time working along side us or toddeling behind us, picking produce straight off the vine, and munching on it as we work. In these days of supermarket shopping, it can be easy to disconnect how food is grown- especially for kids who may be generations removed from a home garden- and we want as many kids as possible to have the opportunity to connect to the growing process.