join us for a free workshop to learn how to preserve your garden abundance

Join Garfield Community Farm on Saturday, September 28 from noon to 2 pm for a harvest party! Enjoy food catered by Veggies N’at and prepared with veggies we've grown this year for a celebration of the farm this season!

Join Win and Onika for a peaceful evening to celebrate community, music, and the heralding of Fall on September 22, during the evening golden hour. 

Join us for a guided watercolor of selected wildflower specimens and then explore GCF’s site to select a wildflower to draw on their own (with guidance from Joe as needed).

Join us to learn how to extend your garden season into the fall!

Join us to learn the difference between indeterminate and determinate tomatoes, trellising and pruning techniques, and how to manage pests and diseases that can impact your tomato harvest. 

Learn the basics for pest management, fertilizing and how to harvest in order to prolong plant life for your garden beds! This workshop is free and open to the public. In the event of inclement weather we’ll be meeting at Valley View Church located at 601 N Aiken Avenue, Pittsburgh PA 15206.

This two day intensive will cover both theory and practice of creating a perennial food forest using permaculture design.

An experiential opportunity for contemplation and reflection while engaging your inner-life movements and interacting with herbs in various ways. Each morning will be something different — making herbal teas, creating herbal weavings, enjoying herbal footbaths, and making herbal blessing smudges (just to name a few). These activities are designed to be both creative and reflective.

An experiential opportunity for contemplation and reflection while engaging your inner-life movements and interacting with herbs in various ways. Each morning will be something different — making herbal teas, creating herbal weavings, enjoying herbal footbaths, and making herbal blessing smudges (just to name a few). These activities are designed to be both creative and reflective.

An experiential opportunity for contemplation and reflection while engaging your inner-life movements and interacting with herbs in various ways. Each morning will be something different — making herbal teas, creating herbal weavings, enjoying herbal footbaths, and making herbal blessing smudges (just to name a few). These activities are designed to be both creative and reflective.

Please join us at the Sensory Peace Labyrinth at GCF as we “Walk as One at 1” (local time) to create a rolling wave of peaceful energy passing from one time zone to the next as a moving meditation for world peace and celebration of the labyrinth experience.

Join Sensory Super Powers for this mental health event as we educate, advocate and support families within Garfield and surrounding communities to increase awareness and show support for children and adolescents who may be struggling with their mental health. This event is free and open to the public

Learn ways to prepare your allotment beds as well as a walkthrough of some basic garden tools to get you started! You’ll learn things around soil testing, preparing your plants, ways to trellis, and some methods of seed plantings.

An experiential opportunity for contemplation and reflection while engaging your inner-life movements and interacting with herbs in various ways. Each morning will be something different — making herbal teas, creating herbal weavings, enjoying herbal footbaths, and making herbal blessing smudges (just to name a few). These activities are designed to be both creative and reflective.

Join us for a day at community garden spaces in Garfield.

Learn the basic techniques for spacing your garden beds and the best ways to utilize your space! This event is free and open to the public

Joe Frankiewicz, a local naturalist, will lead participants through a guided drawing of a selected tree specimen. During this time, Joe will also point out which features to observe when trying to identify trees in the winter. For the second half of class, participants will explore GCF's site to select a tree to draw on their own (with guidance from Joe as needed).

Come join Garfield Community Farm, in collaboration with Onika and Win from Black Dream Escape, for a peaceful evening to celebrate community, music, and the return of spring on March 19th, during evening golden hour (right before sunset).

Winter Solstice

Join Garfield Community Farm on Saturday, November 4 from 11am to noon for a composting workshop led by Russ Thorsen, PASA Farmer Outreach Specialist and master composter. Space is limited to 20 folks with priority registration given to Garfield residents. Register online or email mahoganyrae@gmail.com

Join Garfield Community Farm on Saturday, October 14 from 11am to noon for a food preservation workshop. Space is limited to 20 folks with priority registration given to Garfield residents. Register online or email mahoganyrae@gmail.com

Restorative Herbal Mornings on 9/9, 9/16, 9/23, and 9/30 from 9 am-10 am Experiential opportunities for contemplation and reflection while engaging your inner-life movements and interacting with herbs in various ways.

Throughout this course, we will delve into how our spirituality influences our design approach. Furthermore, we will explore how permaculture's ethics and principles can serve as valuable assets for fostering mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being, often referred to as "inner-permaculture.

Restorative Herbal Mornings on 9/9, 9/16, 9/23, and 9/30 from 9 am-10 am Experiential opportunities for contemplation and reflection while engaging your inner-life movements and interacting with herbs in various ways.

Restorative Herbal Mornings on 9/9, 9/16, 9/23, and 9/30 from 9 am-10 am Experiential opportunities for contemplation and reflection while engaging your inner-life movements and interacting with herbs in various ways.

Join Garfield Community Farm on Saturday, September 9 from 11am to 1pm for a harvest party! Join us for food catered by Veggies N’at and prepared with veggies we've grown this year for a celebration of the farm this season! Space is limited to 50 folks with priority registration given to Garfield residents. Register online or email mahoganyrae@gmail.com