

Exclusive Classes
Bring the lessons of your garden to your classroom, office, or organization. Our garden teachers have prepared classes for all ages on many subjects. Together, we can deliver thoughtful and exciting lessons with hands-on demonstrations and take-home gifts to assist in your garden journey. What wonderful things can we imagine?
DIY Medicinal Tea Blends
$250 In Person
8-15 students
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$175 Online
8-15 students

Grow your own medicine with our class and learn how to make herbal teas that are tailored to fit your specific needs! You will be able to mix and match from a range of dried herbs to make your own cushion health tea that fits your individual needs. Take control of your health today by learning how to grow and use herbal teas!
Gourd Crafting
$250 In Person
8-15 students
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$175 Online
8-15 students

Our ancestors cultivated and crafted hard-shelled gourds to store food, water and wine. Now a days, gourds of all shapes and sized are carved and dyed to create instruments, bowls, lanterns, and beautiful art installations. In this class you will learn to clean, carve and paint a birdhouse that will last you cam keep forever.
Free Gardening Classes
Santa Clara County Only
We Start Gardens teacher Derek Bryant is trained and Certified UCCE Master Gardeners and Master Composters. The mission of the UCCE is to teach the public research based best practices in sustainable agriculture. Classes can be taught in warm season and cool season vegetable gardening, herb gardening, container gardening, fruit tree cultivation, drought tolerant or native gardening plus more.
Note: requesting a class is currently done through the master gardeners site. Please follow the instructions below
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Follow the link below to the "Request a Speaker" page on the UC Master Gardener's website
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Click "Open Survey" and fill out the form
3
Ask for Derek in the Other Information field
Let us grow your green thumb
Santa Clara County Only
We Start Gardens teacher Derek Bryant is trained and Certified UCCE Master Gardeners and Master Composters. The mission of the UCCE is to teach the public research based best practices in sustainable agriculture. Classes can be taught in warm season and cool season vegetable gardening, herb gardening, container gardening, fruit tree cultivation, drought tolerant or native gardening plus more.