August 30, Saturday, 9:00 – 5:00 &
August 31, Sunday, 10:00 – 4:00
🍂 Free Lectures and Tours 🍂 Vendors 🍂 Food 🍂 Music 🍂 over 1,898 varieties of plants available 🍂
A fun way to wind down the gardening season! Two full days of free lectures and tours of our spectacular gardens; and a craft market featuring a wide selection of curated vendors and food brought to you in partnership with Marketspace Vendor Events.
Topics for the weekend include*:
🌿 Bitters and other Botanicals 🌿 Herbal Infused Oils 🌿🦟 Carnivorous Plants ☕️ Herbal Tea 🍂 Fabulous Fall Perennials 🦋 Saving the Butterflies 🍄 Mushroom Cultivation 🌿⚕️Fall & Winter Wellness Wisdom 🌺 Mediterranean Marvels 🌸 Scented Geraniums 🐦Backyard Birdhouses 🌱Fall Native Plants
(*topics subject to change as the schedule is finalized)
Free admission and parking. Event held rain or shine.
🌻 The full schedule and lecture descriptions can be found in the Discussion tab in this event! 🌻
Schedule, Saturday, August 30th, 2025
9:30 am:
-Formal Herb Garden Tour (Patrick McDuffee, Well-Sweep Herb Farm)
11:00 am:
-Native Treasures (David Hyde, Owner, Well-Sweep Herb Farm)
-Herbs for Fall & Winter Wellness (Kerry Adams, RH AHG, Clinical Herbalist)
-Music by Rupert & Scheetz 11:00-1:00 in the Marketspace
12:00 pm:
-Flytraps & Flowers & Kittens, Oh My! (Patrick McDuffee, WSHF)
12:30 pm:
-Bitters & Other Botanicals (Deirdre Larkin, Horticulturist and Plant Historian)
-Attracting Birds to Your Yard and Garden (Dave Pasake, Woodworker & Teacher)
1:30 pm:
-Music by Wyatt’s Folk Duo from 1:30-3:30 in the Marketspace
1:45 pm:
-Turning Local Flavors into Spirits (Living Spirits Distillery, in the Marketspace)
2:00 pm:
-Mediterranean Favorites (David Hyde, WSHF)
-The Fruiting Body: Mushrooms & Fungi (Olga Tzogas, Smugtown Mushrooms)
3:30 pm:
-Scented Geranium Deep Dive (Patrick McDuffee, WSHF)
Schedule, Sunday, August 31st
10:00 am:
-Attracting Birds to Your Yard and Garden (Dave Pasake, Woodworker & Teacher)
-Formal Herb Garden Tour (Patrick McDuffee, WSHF)
11:00 am:
-Music by Rupert & Scheetz 11:00-1:00 in the Marketspace
11:30 am:
-Fantastic Fall Perennials (David Hyde, WSHF)
-Herbal Infused Oils (Cheryl Karcher, Hilltop Herbals, LLC)
12:30 pm:
-Flytraps & Flowers & Kittens, Oh My! (Patrick McDuffee, WSHF)
1:00 pm:
-Saving the Butterflies (Lori Princiotto, Teacher)
-Wine Cap Mushrooms for Food & Soil Health (Olga Tzogas, Smugtown Mushrooms)
1:30 pm:
-Music by Wyatt’s Folk Duo from 1:30-3:30 in the Marketspace
1:45 pm:
-Turning Local Flavors into Spirits (Living Spirits Distillery, in the Marketspace)
2:30 pm:
-Afternoon Herbal Tea (Patrick McDuffee, WSHF)
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