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Brooklyn Grange's Chief Creative Officer, Gwen Schantz, teaches you how to take your garden plans to the next level. If you know how to transplant a seedling, but are still working on making your full garden vision come to life, this is the workshop for you! If you've attended our "Planning an Urban Vegetable Garden" workshop, this is a great next step, but no prerequisites are needed! For this class you should have a general sense of goals for your green space. Gwen will help you plan next steps, including ensuring drainage, soil, and light requirements are appropriate. She will offer plant recommendations for urban settings, ecological considerations, and confirm you have appropriate access and set up for long term success, as well as maintenance considerations for your space, and appropriate vendors to reach out to. As a class we will also go through a few garden case studies that have gone through a revamp, discussing why certain design decisions were made as well as potential opportunities.
We will leave 20 minutes at the end of class to answer all of your burning questions, though we ask that questions are framed in a way that will be helpful for all attendees. Please note this is not a consultation, but rather a course that is designed to set you up with the tools to envision, design and execute your own urban garden or landscape.
Our workshops and events are available at a sliding scale. We invite you to practice economic solidarity with your community and choose the ticket tier that makes most sense with your financial situation.
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This tier is at the market rate and reflects the true cost of the service, labor and expertise of producing the workshop/event. This price point allows us to generate a profit. We encourage those with access to wealth to opt for this tier as it enables Brooklyn Grange to offer more tickets at an accessible price.
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This tier reflects the cost of our service labor and expertise required to produce the workshop/event and allows us to make a small profit. We encourage those to opt for a Sustainable Ticket if the price point of a General Ticket is prohibitive.
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This ticket tier reflects our intention to make our events open for all! We want all members of our community to enjoy Brooklyn Grange no matter their financial situation. Opt for the Solidarity ticket if General or Sustainable is not accessible to you right now.
About Gwen Schantz: Gwen Schantz is co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Brooklyn Grange LLC. A long-time sustainable food advocate, Gwen has a background in non-profit management and sustainable development. As the head of Brooklyn Grange’s Design/Build division, Gwen creates and maintains innovative green spaces for a diverse clientele, from schools and non-profit organizations, to private residences and commercial buildings. Gwen’s dedication to solving urban environmental problems through the installation of soil and plants has been recognized by Curbed, who honored her as a 2015 “Young Gun” designer. She has given talks at various colleges and universities, served as an Adjunct Professor at New York University’s Environmental Studies Department, and spoken to audiences at AIGA, the Association of Municipalities of Ontario, Greenbuild Conference, the Urban Green Council, the Department of City Planning of New York, and the Brooklyn Food Conference, among others. She is a registered General Contractor, an experienced Sustainability Consultant, and has managed dozens of urban garden and green roof design-build projects.