Mitch Roberge, Horticulturist & Artist, HSB Garden Designs; Calluna Plants & Gifts  

Create a festive winter wreath for your home this season! In this 90-minute guided workshop, you will combine fresh-cut seasonal foliage along with ribbons and natural embellishments to adorn your greenery wreath. Choose either the morning or the afternoon session. All materials will be provided! Please bring a pair of pruners and gardening gloves.  

Mitch Roberge is a Visual Artist and Pennsylvania Certified Horticulturist. He is inspired by the textures and colors found in nature, and most of his work features fauna and flora.  

Friday, December 6
10:00 – 11:30 am  

Friday, December 6
1:00 – 2:30 pm  

Members: $60 | Non-members: $65

Al Paris, Professional Chef/Restaurateur

These demonstration classes will cover the creation of a meal focused on products from Erdenheim Farm. Each class will include a discussion about how the food is raised or grown on the farm, followed by a cooking demonstration by Chef Al Paris, and finish with a chance to eat and savor the creation. Chef Al Paris has owned and created the culture and cuisine of 13 award-winning restaurants—most recently Paris Bistro in Chestnut Hill. He believes that all cooks can create their own distinct cuisine through the clarity of their vision and the use of the freshest seasonal ingredients.

The class meets at the Sheep Barn parking lot at Erdenheim Farm (5051 Flourtown Road, Lafayette Hill, PA 19444).

A different seasonal menu is offered monthly from August to December. Please sign up for each session separately.
Registration and menus located below.

Al Paris, Professional Chef/Restaurateur

MENU: Corn, chard, and red pepper popovers; sage pumpkin risotto with herb goat cheese; wood-charred Erdenheim Farm Black Angus ribeye with balsamic radicchio and glazed parsnips; blueberry lemon-basil hand pies. The meal features Erdenheim Farm beef, eggs, honey, basil, chard, pumpkin, and radicchio.   

Saturday, December 14 
12:00 – 3:00 pm

Members: $120 | Non-members: $130

Al Paris, Professional Chef/Restaurateur

MENU: Whole wheat honey oat dinner rolls; roasted yellow beet salad with farm greens and a warm maple dressing; chestnut pappardelle with farm chard, beef tenderloin, prosciutto and button mushrooms. For dessert Chef will serve a cranberry cornmeal-cream shortcake waffles and apple cider caramel. The meal features Erdenheim Farm beef, eggs, greens, and apple cider. 

Saturday, January 25
12:00 – 3:00 pm

Members: $120 | Non-members: $130

Al Paris, Professional Chef/Restaurateur

MENU: Caramelized shallot raisin egg biscuits; orange red onion fennel salad; individual lamb pies with flakey crust. For dessert we will make a quick tiramisu with ladyfingers. The meal features Erdenheim Farm lamb, eggs, and greens.  

 Saturday, February 22
12:00 – 3:00 pm

Members: $110 | Non-members: $120

Ginger Mimmo Rohlfing, State Certified Art Instructor; Art Educator at Moore College of Art & Design and Woodmere Art Museum

Bring your little ones to explore nature and discover the living elements in a garden—textures, colors, patterns, and shapes will come alive as we take a closer look at nature together. After exploring, we’ll make an art project inspired by our discoveries. Making our art will cover a a variety of mediums through the weeks! The instructor will bring materials for us to create with, just come prepared with your excitement to create art from nature!

Each registration includes one adult and one child; siblings will require an additional registration. Class will meet in the tent behind the Welcome Center.

Four Thursdays: October 31, November 7, 14, 21
10:00 – 11:00 am

Members: $100 | Non-members: $120

Lee Armillei, Landscape Designer; Principal, Athyrium Design

Want to create a thoughtful, inspired landscape that works for you and your family for years to come? Join professional landscape designer Lee Armillei, APLD, in this two-day workshop on residential landscape design.
Through a combination of lecture and drawing exercises, students will follow a systematic approach to the design process and learn key design principles. Students will then lay out patios, paths, planting beds and more in their individual projects.
A detailed list of required materials will be sent to students prior to the first class. Please bring your own lunch.

Two Fridays; January 24, 31 (Snow Date: Feb. 7)
10:00 am – 3:30 pm

Members: $175 | Non-members: $185

Lisa Myers, Friends of the Wissahickon Trail Ambassador

Join us for an enriching hike where our guide Lisa Myers, a longtime volunteer and trail guide, will unravel the geological mysteries of the Wissahickon. During this captivating journey, participants will be introduced to the origins and the natural forces that have sculpted the Wissahickon Gorge we see today. Lisa will show different rock specimens before embarking on a hike to visit exposed rock formations of gneiss, schist, and quartzite, learning about these different rock types as well as the minerals found within these exposures. We will visit an old quarry and get hands-on with some boulders to test their magnetic properties! You will come away with a new eye for how Earth’s ancient history appears within the beauty of the landscape all around us!

We will meet at the Bells Mills Road parking lot, Roxborough side of the creek.

Wednesday, November 20
10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Members: $30 | Non-members: $35