Learn from expert gardener Dora Berry, how to maximize the use of your greenhouse this Spring. From direct seeding to seed starting, you can get growing sooner.
Dora will be sharing her experiences and tips with enjoying her greenhouse year-round!

Hosted by Strathcona County Library
Register at SCL Spring Greenhouse Growing

Save the date! Monday May 16th or Tuesday May 24th at 7pm!
The link to purchase tickets is coming soon!

Join Dora and the Italian Centre Shop to learn how to grow your favourite herbs and vegetables in containers!
Grow what you eat! A variety of herbs? Or a pizza planter? Bruschetta or salsa pot! A lush salad or verdura bowl!

You’ll learn how to select your container, it’s soil, and of course, it’s plants or seeds! Discover what you can grow in different spaces throughout your home and yard!

Plus, learn my tips and tricks on growing naturally, as well as how to help your plants thrive even while you are away!

BONUS, relish in a Spinelli Bar Italia’s beverage or pastry while you learn! Arrive early to purchase your treat and grab your seat!

Save the date! Monday May 16th or Tuesday May 24th at 7pm!
The link to purchase tickets is coming soon!

Join Dora and the Italian Centre Shop to learn how to grow your favourite herbs and vegetables in containers!
Grow what you eat! A variety of herbs? Or a pizza planter? Bruschetta or salsa pot! A lush salad or verdura bowl!

You’ll learn how to select your container, it’s soil, and of course, it’s plants or seeds! Discover what you can grow in different spaces throughout your home and yard!

Plus, learn my tips and tricks on growing naturally, as well as how to help your plants thrive even while you are away!

BONUS, relish in a Spinelli Bar Italia’s beverage or pastry while you learn! Arrive early to purchase your treat and grab your seat!

Pollinators are essential for fruits, flowers, and healthy ecosystems. They also bring joy to our yards in the beauty of butterfly wings and buzzing of bees. Dora Berry, landscape designer and biologist, will share the ecological elements and methods needed for a pollinator habitat, along with creating a beautiful flower garden.

Our free, online event is hosted by Strathcona County Library. Register now on their website through this link.!

Get the how-to ‘s and “Grow with Dora” in this informative and instructive hour-long presentation, followed with a half hour Q & A.

Dora Berry, landscape gardener and biologist, shares with us how to start seeds indoors to grow resilient seedlings to transplant into our kitchen gardens and containers.
Learn many tips for germination success to fill your garden with vegetables, herbs, and flowers. Bring your questions!

Hosted by Strathcona County Library. Registration is now open https://www.sclibrary.ca/calendar?month=2021-03

Join, Listen, Ask!
Dora Berry is going on air to answer your questions! Join the podcast, listen along, and ask your gardening and landscaping questions!

TIME: 7 to 8pm
DATES: Tuesdays in May, and Wednesdays for June!
HOW: Sign in at https://mixlr.com/bill-paul-face-the-music where you can listen to the discussion, enjoy the laughs, and enter your questions into the chat.

The Bill & Paul Face the Music live podcast is similar to a radio show! Dora joins these entertaining hosts as their pro bono “Expert in Residence” for their weekly, hour-long garden & landscape podcast. Dora’s focus is always sustainability and functionality, with beautiful abundance as the reward. Learn more about Dora at Nature’s Elements - Sustainable Gardens, Landscapes, and Habitats

Join, Listen, Ask!
Dora Berry is going on air to answer your questions! Join the podcast, listen along, and ask your gardening and landscaping questions!

TIME: 7 to 8pm
DATES: Tuesdays in May, and Wednesdays for June!
HOW: Sign in at https://mixlr.com/bill-paul-face-the-music where you can listen to the discussion, enjoy the laughs, and enter your questions into the chat.

The Bill & Paul Face the Music live podcast is similar to a radio show! Dora joins these entertaining hosts as their pro bono “Expert in Residence” for their weekly, hour-long garden & landscape podcast. Dora’s focus is always sustainability and functionality, with beautiful abundance as the reward. Learn more about Dora at Nature’s Elements - Sustainable Gardens, Landscapes, and Habitats

CANCELLED DUE TO CORVID-19 PANDEMIC

NEW COURSE! Grow more than just a Pollinator Garden… create Habitat Gardens for all our beneficial insects!

In this class, you will learn to create a lovely yard that provides habitat to our pollinator species, such as bees, butterflies and hummingbirds, as well as beneficial garden insects, such as predators and parasitoids who naturally control pest insects. You will learn essential habitat components that support our pollinator and beneficial insect communities. We will discuss native and non-native plants for your pollinator garden, and you will be provided with plant lists of annuals, perennials, shrubs, and trees. You will learn how to plant and care for these plants by means that will support the garden and wildlife habitat. $85+tax. 

Register HERE through the University of Alberta Botanic Gardens!

CANCELLED DUE TO CORVID-19 PANDEMIC
NEW COURSE!
Finally, as requested: Kitchen Garden’s for Tiny Spaces!

In this class, you will design your kitchen garden for your small “pocket” yard.
Kitchen gardens are food producing gardens that are designed to be beautiful, functional, and readily accessible, where you can grow vegetables, herbs, fruits, as well as companion flowers. We will improve on this further by focusing on design methods of sustainability, natural gardening, and productivity.
With your kitchen garden designed, you will then learn how to create an annual planting plan for your custom garden. $113+tax.
Register HERE through the University of Alberta Botanic Gardens!

CANCELLED DUE TO CORVID-19 PANDEMIC

“Learn how to create a healthy, vibrant, abundant, and sustainable landscape for pollinators and for our vegetable gardens, as Dora Berry goes into the details of the methods of companion planting and creating pollinator habitats!.”

Are you a new gardener or have you been gardening for years?
Do you have a small yard or do you have a vast acreage?
Well, this talk is for all of you! This is a fantastic 1 hour talk filled with information, examples, and discussion. Learn how companion planting improves the resilience, production and health of our gardens, as well as enhances the local habitat of our yards! We will discuss tried-and-true companion planting groupings, as well as the plants that just shouldn’t hang-out together. Along with this comes our pollinator plants, that we grow not just as companions for our food producing gardens, but also those we grow just for the sake of the pollinators.. as well as other beneficial insects. We will discuss the plants that support this insect habitat, as well as the other features of habitat design!

We hit the talk running at 12:30pm in Council Chambers

Join me at the start of the event at 9:30am for Design & Build Your Vegetable Garden !!

Seedy Sunday in Sherwood Park:
9:30am to 4:30pm
Free Event!
Join us for a day of gardening, learning and fun! With information talks and a variety of vendors to gather information, purchase seeds and other items for the 2020 gardening season! See Strathcona County Library for library sponsored talk registrations.
Learn more about our full day of talks & vendors on facebook at Seedy Sunday in Sherwood Park !! There will be regard posting about our talks and vendors! A huge thanks to our wonderful hosts Strathcona County Library

CANCELLED DUE TO CORVID-19 PANDEMIC

“Learn from our local garden expert, Dora Berry, on an array of designs to vegetable gardens, their building methods, and sustainable techniques to creating a bountiful garden that suits your family and your yard.”

Are you a new gardener or have you been gardening for years?
Do you have a small yard or do you have a vast acreage?
Well, this talk is for all of you! This is a fantastic 1 hour talk filled with information, examples, and discussion. We will be covering layout and method of differing garden designs, to growing healthy soil system within it, water harvesting, options for season extending, and more!

We hit the talk running at 9:30am in Council Chambers

Join me again at 12:30pm for Companion Plants & Pollinator Gardens!!

Seedy Sunday in Sherwood Park:
9:30am to 4:30pm
Free Event!
Join us for a day of gardening, learning and fun! With information talks and a variety of vendors to gather information, purchase seeds and other items for the 2020 gardening season! See Strathcona County Library for library sponsored talk registrations.
Learn more about our full day of talks & vendors on facebook at Seedy Sunday in Sherwood Park !! There will be regard posting about our talks and vendors! A huge thanks to our wonderful hosts Strathcona County Library

CANCELLED DUE TO CORVID-19 PANDEMIC

Frustrated with pest insects? Wanting to attract pollinator and other beneficial insects? Want to ensure you are gardening and landscaping by means that don’t damage the environment, and wonderfully, enhance the habitat of your landscape? Learn these sustainable, ecological, practical, and actually, quite easy methods and techniques with me!
Join me at the Sturgeon County - Country Living Expo for a FREE, jam-packed 30 minute presentation on Biological Control & Beneficial Insects for your garden and landscape. There is a full day of amazing presentations, as well as informative booths, a market, and kids’ activities! This is excellent for those living the country life (acreages and larger), as well as for those large urban yards and gardens. Full event details at Country Living Expo 2020

Our special guest, Dora Berry of Nature's Elements - Sustainable Landscape Design will be teaching the how, when, and where of seed starting followed by a seed swap to get you growing! Bring any labeled seeds that you want to share and take home some proven winners to add variety to your garden. Registration required HERE

Free Event!
Workshop will be taking place in the fireplace area of the library.

Let's have some Green Thumb fun!

I'll being guiding you and your kiddos with a plant-n-take. We all need garden therapy in mid-winter and to kick-off the party for Empowerfit Fitness & Wellness for Women !

Find more info on there event via Facebook: Empowerfit's 1st Birthday Celebrations
Or go directly to their website and get your tickets at $5/family! https://empowerfit.ca/

Harvesting during the autumn months provides you with more time to efficiently and deliciously preserve your garden’s abundance. As passed down from the generations before us, knowing how to preserve and store your harvest can give your family nourishment throughout the year. Join landscape gardener Dora Berry of Nature’s Elements to learn tried-and-true methods of reaping and savouring your garden’s bounty, including heritage recipes from the Provincial Archives that are still enjoyed today! While on site, take in our latest gallery photo exhibit Food and Community.

FREE EVENT! General Seating. Pre-registration on Eventbrite required.

A donation to Edmonton’s Food Bank is welcome.

Gardening has an incredible impact on your overall well-being. In this workshop, we’ll talk about creating garden spaces as a wellness resource, and how to create a therapeutic space for yourself. We'll discuss the holistic values of connecting to the outdoors through gardening, and how you can nurture your physical, mental, emotional, as well as spiritual well-being. Join us and discover the power of garden therapy!

Purchase your tickets HERE

Hosted by Salisbury Greenhouse! Featuring guest speaker, Dora Berry. Landscape designer, gardener, biologist, and educator. Learn more about Dora at www.natureselements.ca

Composting is one of the easiest, most beneficial things we can do for the planet—and our gardens! Learn how to create homemade soil amendments and reduce food waste with this in-depth composting tutorial. Find out the different kinds of composters, which one is right for you, and learn best practises for composter placement and maintenance. We’ll also cover how composting works, how to get it started, and then how to use it in your garden. This workshop will ‘decompose’ all the myths you’ve heard about composting!

Purchase your tickets HERE

Hosted by Salisbury Greenhouse! Featuring guest speaker, Dora Berry. Landscape designer, gardener, biologist, and educator. Learn more about Dora at www.natureselements.ca

The success of your garden depends on the health of your soil’s ecosystem. Acidity, lack of nutrients, and poor structure can all affect how your plants perform throughout the season. In this workshop, we’ll cover the role of soil amendments in gardening, and how to diagnose issues in your soil that amendments can help with. Find out the warning signs for soil-related issues, how to know if you’re low on certain minerals, how to fix common problems, and some natural solutions you can try at home. Join us and get the “dirt” on dirt!

Purchase your tickets HERE

Hosted by Salisbury Greenhouse! Featuring guest speaker, Dora Berry. Landscape designer, gardener, biologist, and educator. Learn more about Dora at www.natureselements.ca

Some plants really are better together! This workshop will introduce you to the “BFFs” of the gardening world, and how to play matchmaker with your plants. You’ll learn which make perfect pairs (and which don’t get along!), and the different benefits of companion planting. We’ll cover the 5 main categories of companion plants: structurer, attractors, decoys, nutrients, and wildlife. Sign up for this workshop for great tips to help you get healthier plants, deal with fewer pests, and even grow an amazing butterfly garden!

Purchase your tickets HERE

Hosted by Salisbury Greenhouse! Featuring guest speaker, Dora Berry. Landscape designer, gardener, biologist, and educator. Learn more about Dora at www.natureselements.ca

Dig ‘n Dirt Day at Thiel’s Greenhouses! All day event from 10am - 4pm!
No registration required.

From 11am - 12:30pm Dora Berry will be speaking on the standards and basics to landscape installations for new planting areas! Learn about soil preparations, wood and rock mulches, landscape fabric or not, and planting of those trees, shrubs, perennials, and annuals!

“Do you have a passion for planting, giving back to the community, or both? Come have fun for a good cause! Thiel's will be donating planters, plants, and soil to create pallet gardens for Bruderheim. Once planted, the pallets will be moved to the Walker School Historical Building, where they'll be looked after and harvested by senior volunteers in the community. All of the food grown from the pallet gardens will be donated to the Food Bank. There will be lots of fun and activities. So come out, have fun, and take part in a wonderful project that benefits the whole community.

​Schedule includes Butterfly, Wings 'n Wishes who will be on site from 10:30-12:30 and Dora Berry, from Nature's Elements - Sustainable Landscape Design, will talk about standards for landscape installations for building planting beds from 11:00 am-12:30. Dig 'n Dirt planting will begin at 9:30 am and be available throughout the day. "Surprize" draws for kids, too! The "Alberta Food Truck" will be on site.
This event is sponsored by CENOVUS, THIEL'S GREENHOUSES, Bruderheim Ag Society, Town of Bruderheim, and Communities in Bloom.”
Source:: https://www.thielsgreenhouse.ca/events

Join Dora as she unearths the secrets of what makes a garden both beautiful and successful at the same time.  Learn techniques for a gorgeous design and learn what plants thrive in the microclimates of your yard.

This Salisbury Greenhouse event features guest speaker, Dora Berry. Landscape designer, gardener, biologist, and educator.

Purchase your tickets HERE

Skip the trip to the supermarket and learn how to create your very own produce aisle in the most convenient location— your own kitchen!

This Salisbury Greenhouse event features guest speaker, Dora Berry. Landscape designer, gardener, biologist, and educator.

Purchase your tickets HERE

For the entire day of Saturday, April 13th, Thiel’s Greenhouses is offering a full day of free seminars on sustainable healthy living.
No registration required.

From 12:30pm - 2pm Dora Berry will be speaking on the topic of Holistic Wellness Design.

For the entire day of Saturday, April 13th, Thiel’s Greenhouses is offering a full day of free seminars on sustainable healthy living.
No registration required.

From 10am-11am Dora Berry will be speaking on the topic of Edible Design.

Discover eco-friendly gardening alternatives, and learn how to make the most out of the natural renewable resources all around us.

This Salisbury Greenhouse event features guest speaker, Dora Berry. Landscape designer, gardener, biologist, and educator.

Purchase your tickets HERE