Register through North Central Washington ESD: 4.0 clock and STEM hours.

Classroom in Bloom offers OSPI approved educator workshops with Washington State Clock Hours. The workshops are for ALL educators, and anyone involved in student education. All workshops focus on hands on learning, collaboration, and Washington State Curriculum.

Cost: FREE

All costs of the class, including free lessons, curriculum, and tools were provided through the foundry10 foundation funds and the Okanogan Conservation District. Curriculum developed by Classroom in Bloom coincides with grade level state standards.

School garden programs integrate classroom lessons and art disciplines into a dynamic, outdoor program for K-6 grade students. Classroom in Bloom’s team of educators will share curriculum developed for K-6 grade students which includes lessons, games, activities, and other educational tools that deepen garden education while building a child’s sense of wonder and connection to nature. Teachers will learn how to inspire creativity for student learning and integrate state standard-based art education in the garden environment.

Support and Buy Local! Purchase a sample of Classroom in Bloom’s bounty to support your youth farmers at the Methow Valley Elementary School. Students have been preparing for weeks to host their own Farmers Market: 4th grade students will sell produce and High School Culinary Arts will offer sample dishes of the variety of foods grown here in their school garden.

This project is supported and in partnership with PSFA - our Public School Funding Alliance. http://www.methowvalleypsfa.org/

We have sold out of tickets for this year’s event! Thank you to our community for making this a special and supported event even before it’s started.

Join our 5th grade students at their Annual Spring Plant Sale as they sow, grow, tend and sell veggie and flower plants starts as a fundraiser for their school garden. This one-day sale during the school week gives all students an opportunity to run the sale.

ONLINE SALE MAY 6-14

There will be limited online sales one-week beforehand, with pickup at the garden on Fri, May 17th at the Plant Sale.

Classroom in Bloom will host a booth of activities and garden fun at the 3rd Annual Earth Day Festival sponsored by Methow Recycles. See their website at https://www.methowrecycles.org/events/earth-day

Help us celebrate with our Methow Valley Elementary School children the beauty of Earth Day, every day! If you’d like to volunteer to help with our festivities at school on this day, contact Kim@classroominbloom.org

Saturday, March 30th
9am-12pm

(Homegrown garden snacks and drinks provided)

Please come and join us before students are back in the garden on April 8th. A few projects we need help with include:  Gazebo TLC, hedgerow tidying, root cellar drainage, fence repair,berry patch love.

Please RSVP to kim@classroominbloom.org if you can make it.

Hosted by Methow Valley Seed Collective, Classroom in Bloom and the Twisp Valley Grange

Interactive program begins at 2:00pm to learn about the ways we all save seed and the ways we can support each other in creating a community of seed savers to support our present and future seed security. 

2:45 starts our Seed Swap! We can learn from each other about the varieties that we bring, and how they are maintained.  You are NOT required to bring seed in order to take seed, all seed is given freely at this Seed Swap.

Please bring envelopes, bags or jars to take seed home in. 

Methow Valley Seed Collective and Classroom in Bloom will bring some different dishes of food to share that are created from seed varieties that we grow.  Please bring a side dish of your own that features a crop that you grew, especially one from which you brought seed to share.

Methow Valley Seed Collective/Twisp River Seed www.mvseedcollective.com

Anaka Mines with Methow Valley Seed Collective will share some introductory concepts on how to save your own seeds from common crops in the Methow Valley.  She’ll discuss the basics of how to adapt crops to our climatic region and why it’s so important to be adaptive in our approach to agriculture. As founder of the Methow Valley Seed Collective, she asks how can we work together as a community to maintain a supply of local seeds that we can all use and share?  – the heart of seed saving.  Her talk is a prelude to the community Seed Swap and Gathering on 18 February.

Support and Buy Local! Purchase a sample of Classroom in Bloom’s bounty to support your youth farmers at the Methow Valley Elementary School. Students have been preparing for weeks to host their own Farmers Market: 4th grade students will sell produce and High School Culinary Arts will offer sample dishes of the variety of foods grown here in their school garden.

This project is supported and in partnership with PSFA - our Public School Funding Alliance. http://www.methowvalleypsfa.org/

An evening under the sunflowers and amidst friends and family of the Valley to celebrate and raise funds for garden programs that bring life-changing benefits of outdoor science and art education, and farm fresh food to children of the Methow Valley through their public schools.

$32 per ticket (includes credit card service fees)
party for adults over 21 only

Sowing Seeds and Growing Hope in the Congo

Victor will join us in the Methow Valley to tell his story of growing up in a small village in the Democratic Republic of Congo. From the age of 6, he assisted his grandfather in growing food for the family with no tools but iron hoes. Seeds and farming literally gave life to his family and friends as they escaped warfare to the jungle to live for months and years. His love of growing food would eventually lead him to become a sustainable gardening activist working with the organization Slow Food. Through the 10,000 Gardens of Africa project, Victor took the lead in establishing 50 school and community gardens in the midst of a war zone. Victor will share the story of his life in a broken country, working to bring hope and sustenance to people in need!

Sponsored by Classroom in Bloom and the Grange
at the Twisp Valley Grange

Dessert and drinks provided - Free to our Community

There will be donation cards available for folks to take with them to donate to the NGO 1000 Gardens of Africa, through SlowFood Foundation (https://www.fondazioneslowfood.com/en/what-we-do/10-000-gardens-in-africa-2/).

Slow Food Gardens in Africa - What We Do - Slow Food Foundation

The Slow Food Gardens in Africa network is growing: a network of people working across the continent to preserve biodiversity, add value to traditional

www.fondazioneslowfood.com

Join our 5th grade students at their Annual Spring Plant Sale as they sow, grow, tend and sell veggie and flower plants starts as a fund raiser for their school garden. This one-day sale, mid-week gives the students a full opportunity to run their school farm.

ONLINE SALES - DATE TBD

There will be limited online sales the one-week beforehand, with pickup at the garden on Thu, May 18th at the Plant Sale. The online plant sale will be posted and open on May 10th here. Stay Tuned!

Classroom in Bloom will host a booth of activities and garden fun at the 2nd Annual Earth Day Festival sponsored by Methow Recycles at the Doran Ranch!

Help us celebrate with our Methow Valley Elementary School children the beauty of Earth Day, every day! If you’d like to volunteer to help with our festivities at school on this day, contact Kim@classroominbloom.org

We will highlight William Morris’s blown-glass artistic sculpture, his generosity to Classroom in Bloom’s garden education programs, and honor Methow Arts programs.

Seating is limited.

Cost is by donation and all funds will benefit Methow Arts and Classroom in Bloom.

This event on March 2nd will celebrate our opening day of the Online Auction for this one of a kind art piece to benefit Classroom in Bloom.

Hosted by Methow Valley Seed Collective, Twisp Valley Grange and Classroom in Bloom

This gathering will have two components.  There will be an interactive talk with some practical information about how to save seeds in the garden and why saving our own seed locally will benefit our community.  And there will also be an opportunity for gardeners from all over the valley to share seeds that they have saved from their own gardens with other gardeners. 

Please feel free to come with seed you saved, or leftover packets from seeds you have bought and would like to share your excess.  Also, if you have no seed to bring, come as you are, the seeds at this gathering are gifts from the earth to be shared freely, as are the stories and knowledge that we will share.  

Methow Valley Seed Collective/Twisp River Seed www.mvseedcollective.com

Classroom in Bloom will be at the Outdoor Winter Market selling hats, mugs, hoodies and seeds for your holiday shopping gifts!

Mistletoe Madness in Twisp will showcase a variety of artists, makers and crafters with a Winter Market! Stroll downtown Twisp both indoors and outdoors to browse photography, jewelry, pottery, clothing, wreaths, mittens, books, paintings, and much more. See you there!

Support and Buy Local! Purchase a sample of Classroom in Bloom’s bounty to support your youth farmers at the Methow Valley Elementary School. Students have been preparing for weeks to host their own Farmers Market: 4th grade students will sell produce and High School Culinary Arts will offer sample dishes of the variety of foods grown here in their school garden.

This project is supported and in partnership with PSFA - our Public School Funding Alliance. http://www.methowvalleypsfa.org/