Calendar of Events
Grassroots in the Garden
Join Crystal Brown to harvest herbs and learn different ways you can use them, including medicinally! As usual, any herbs harvested are up for grabs at the end of the work session.
Grassroots in the Garden
Harvest goji berries, black berries, and elderberries with Josh Kufahl. Be sure to take some of these delicious fruits with you when you leave!
Grassroots in the Garden
Join Dillon Weist to help prepare the food forest for winter, and learn how you can protect your own garden from the cold and from wildlife.
Celebration of Spirit in Song Concert
This FREE, family friendly event is hosted by the Seymour Park Neighborhood Association and The Tarlton Theatre. Join us for amazing local vendors and performers at the multi-cultural, spirit lifting concert! Free food and beverages will be available during the event.
Planning & Planting a Rain Garden
Learn the whys and hows of planning, installing, and maintaining these vital native plantings designed to soak up rainwater and reduce the problems of runoff.
Grassroots in the Garden
Continue harvesting produce and herbs with Dillon Weist. Learn about hugelkultur to see if it’s something you’d like to try!
Grassroots in the Garden
Crystal Brown will lead you through a harvesting work session! Any produce and or/herbs harvested are up for grabs at the end of the session, for FREE. Learn what produce and herbs are in season throughout the year.
Growing and Showing Blue Ribbon Produce & Flowers
All ages can get advice on growing and selecting blue ribbon-quality veggies, fruits and flowers — to enter in the Brown County Fair or to show off to family and friends.
Food, Climate, and Policy: How to Help in Times of Change
Join Northeast WI nonprofits and affiliates for a morning of roundtable discussions around food, climate, and policy change followed by an optional lunch. Discuss solutions to make a difference in our community!
Meet Me at 815
NeighborWorks Green Bay's free community event on Wednesday, June 12, from 5:00–7:00 PM in our parking lot at 437 S. Jackson Street—we’d love for you to be part of it!
This event is all about celebrating community, building connections, and listening to our neighbors. We’re especially eager to gather feedback and ideas about the future of our nearby property at 815 Chicago Street, and we know that strong community voices are essential to that conversation.
Bellevue Community Orchard Installations
Join us alongside the Bellevue Parks, Rec., and Forestry Department as we install 2 more Community Orchards at parks in Bellevue!
Golden Bear Farm Spring Fling
Come on out to the farm! Meet and greet the new baby pigs and cattle out on the field. Try our No Corn, No Soy No GMO Pastured Berkshire pork products and our Grass Fed/Grass Finished Beef.
Friday, May 23rd - 3:30pm to 7:00pm
Saturday, May 24th - Noon to 6pm
Grassroots in the Garden: Growing Community
The goal of Grassroots in the Garden is to bring our community together to learn skills related to caring for the food forest and how to use the produce it provides. In a series of community work sessions, a mentor will guide you through activities in the garden! The Seymour Park Food Forest may be a collaborative project of ours, but it belongs to our community. We encourage you get involved in your neighborhood food forest!
Veggie & Flower Seedling Giveaway
Northeastern Wisconsin Master Gardeners will give away started plants while quantities last! Master Gardeners and Seed Library partners are invited to bring their excess seedlings to share. Get free advice and handouts on successful transplanting and how to help prevent the spread of invasive jumping worms and other pests when sharing plants
NWTC Garden Club Plant Sale
If you’re planning to stop by NWTC to pick up your Bountiful Branches plants, stop by the NWTC Garden Club Plant Sale! The sale is in the same garage as the Bountiful Branches sale, off of parking lot 5 of the Green Bay Botanical Garden. Potatoes, peppers, cucumbers, flowers, and more are available for purchase. These plants can make a wonderful Mother’s Day gift!
N.E.W. Master Gardeners Plant Sale
Great Plants, Great Prices! Choose from a variety of flower, vegetable, perennial, and pollinator plants.
Tree Planting Workshop and Demonstration
If you don't mind a little dirt under your nails, join us in De Pere Wednesday May 8th to install two Community Orchards! This is a special chance to learn the proper techniques of tree planting from the De Pere Parks & Forestry Department.
2025 AmeriCorps Earth Day
Give back to our community and planet with the Green Bay Conservation Corps! Engage in tree planting, trail system improvements, invasive species removal, and park clean-up at Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary.
Plan Your Garden For Seed Saving
Review the many benefits of saving seeds from your garden to plant next year or give away. Learn types of plants with easy-to-collect seeds; techniques for seed harvesting and avoiding cross-pollination; number of each plant needed; labeling; timing; spacing; more.
Bountiful Branches Guide: A mini-class for planning, planting and maintaining your perennial food plants
If you are purchasing perennial plants from the New Leaf Foods Bountiful Branches Sale, or you’re just curious about the best ways to plan, plant, and take care of these special food producers, this class is for you! Join Dillon Weist, manager of the Bounty Garden for the Sustainable Food and Agriculture Systems associate degree program, at NWTC. He will guide you through the answers to these questions and more.
Tree Grafting Class
This Saturday March 29th, NWTC will host two sessions of a Tree Grafting Class at the greenhouse on their campus. The class will be taught by Dillon Weist, NWTC's Bounty Garden Manager! The class is FREE to attend and you'll walk away with a rootstock of an amazing edible perennial of your choice! Learn the basics of tree grafting to ensure the success of your plant, and for future use.
Brown County Seed Library Launch
Join us for the much-anticipated Brown County Seed Library Launch! Come to the Brown County Central Library for featured speakers and demonstrations related to growing and gardening. Partners of the Seed Library and other community organizations will have engaging, educational activities for attendees. Don’t miss making Seed Art with Mother Nature! In the basement of the library there will be a seed swap for community members to exchange their own seeds.The launch marks the debut of the 2025 seed selection, so be sure to take some FREE seeds on your way out!
Garden Explorer Passport:
Make sure to grab your passport on the way in! Check off stations with stamps or stickers from each activity and turn it in for a chance to win a garden-related prize!
Activities:
Meet Mother Nature, Seed Art, learn about Food Forests and the Bountiful Branches Project
Learn about Seed Stewardship, make seed tape and seed bombs, seed harvesting, get tips and tricks for gardening/seed starting
Enjoy stories, investigate under a microscope, and color sheets
Seed Swap
Master Gardeners Q&A
Much more!
30-minute Workshops by Gardening Experts
12:15-12-45 pm: Controlling Invasive Plants. Learn to identify common non-native plants that can take over your yard and garden, how they are harmful, and the best methods and times of the year to prevent and control them.
Presenter: Maria Otto, Conservation Corps Coordinator, City of Green Bay
Contact: Maria Otto Maria.Otto@greenbaywi.gov
1:00-1:30 pm: Successful Seed Starting. Learn the basics of starting seed indoors, including simple germination testing, basics of stratifying, when to plant, choosing growing mediums, creating the best conditions, and more.
Presenter: Brittany Arnold, Farm to School Program, De Pere Unified School District Nutrition Dept.
Contact: Brittany Arnold barnold@depere.k12.wi.us
1:45-2:15 pm: Keeping Fresh Produce Fresh. Learn the best storage practices to prolong the shelf life and tastiness of different types of fresh produce, whether you grow it yourself or buy it at a store or farmers market.
Presenter: Liliana Ramirez Gonzalez, FoodWIse Nutrition Administrator, UW-Madison Extension Brown County.
Contact: Liliana Ramirez Gonzalez liliana.ramirezgonzalez@wisc.edu
2:30-3:00 pm: Composting Your Food Waste. Learn the whys and hows of turning food waste into rich compost from a former Master Gardener with 50 years of residential composting practice, including tips for small yards and year-round composting.
Presenter: John Hermanson, Compost Educator, Clean Water Action Council of Northeast Wisconsin.
Contact: John Hermanson gliding99@gmail.com
U.S. Championship Cheese Contest
The U.S. Championship Cheese Contest is coming to Green Bay! The contest hosted by the Wisconsin Cheesemakers Association features over 2,000 entries competing for the title of Best Cheese. The contest is FREE and open to the public. It takes place March 4th and 5th from 10am - 3pm both days. If you’re a cheese lover, as any true Wisconsinite is, this is an amazing opportunity to try samples of cheese from around the country. Twenty two producers that have entered are from Northeastern Wisconsin.
Seed Packing & Sorting
Join us for the FINAL seed packing & sorting event before the Brown County Seed Library launch in March! Help us guarantee our community members’ access to a bountiful selection of seeds at the launch, and for months to come.
We’ll be meeting in the Conerstone room at the Green Bay Botanical Garden. Sign up for a morning or afternoon session.
Seed Packing & Sorting
Chase away the winter blues by coming together to sort and package seeds for the planting season! The weather outside is frightful, but springtime blooms will be so delightful! Join us at the Brown County STEM Center on UW-Green Bay’s campus.
Help provide our community with a bountiful variety of FREE locally-grown seeds. Sign up for a morning or afternoon session.
Bountiful Branches Sale
Liven up your yard with one — or more — of our fruit and nut-bearing plants! Every year we cultivate a variety of plants well-suited to grow in Wisconsin for our community members to purchase so they’ll have access to delicious, fresh produce for years to come.
Pricing is just $10 per plant bundle.
Order online February 1 through May 10 or until we sell out!
Winter Seed Sowing Workshop: Jumpstart your Spring Garden
Many seeds need a cold period to germinate, and gardeners can reuse plastic containers to create a protected environment ideal for sowing seeds outdoors in winter that will germinate as the weather warms. Learn what kinds of seeds can be winter sown (natives and veggies), when, and how to sow them, including seed stratification and scarification. Following a presentation and demonstration, create your own mini greenhouses using 2-quart juice bottles.
Some juice bottles as well as select seeds and soil will be provided.
Presented by Claudia Schultz, Master Gardener Lead for the Native Locktenders Garden in De Pere, along with Peggy Loritz, Annette Weissbach and Kathy Amenson, also from Northeastern Wisconsin Master Gardener Association.
SNOW DATE: In case of extreme winter weather, this workshop may be rescheduled to Saturday, January 25, 1:00-3:00 pm. Call the Kress Branch Library to confirm.
This workshop is part of a monthly series organized by the Brown County Seed Library. The BCSL is a collaboration of Brown County Community Gardens Program; Brown County Library; Green Bay Botanical Garden; New Leaf Foods, Inc.; NEW Master Gardeners Association; UW-Green Bay and UW-Madison Extension Brown County.
Seed Packing
Chase away the winter blues by coming together to sort and package seeds for the planting season! As the temperatures start to drop, look forward to springtime blooms with us at the Brown County Central Library in the lower level meeting rooms.
Help provide our community with a bountiful variety of FREE locally-grown seeds. Sign up for a morning or afternoon session.
New Leaf Foods Winter Social
Get cozy with us to celebrate the holiday season and the conclusion of our SeedMoney Campaign! Find out who the lucky winner of the Ooni Pizza Oven is at the end of the night. New Leaf Foods will also present our first ever Good Food Hero award to an individual or organization who has dedicated significant time and effort to support our mission and goals.
Be sure to bring your thinking cap for trivia, and wear your ugliest sweater for our ugly sweater contest. There will be prizes for trivia and ugly sweater contest winners including a gift certificate to All Shook Up Tavern and Voyageurs Bakehouse sourdough loaves! We’ll have FREE pizza and sweet treats. (You do not have to donate to attend.)
Guests are encouraged to bring a snack to contribute.
Invasive Plant Identification & Control
Learn why invasive plants cause harm, how they spread, and what you can do to help control them at this FREE workshop lead by City of Green Bay Conservation Corp. Coordinator Maria Otto.
Start in the park’s heated shelter with a 30 minute presentation and a guided walk through areas where invasive plants like buckthorn are being managed.
Stay for an optional hands-on volunteer experience removing invasive plants from 11am - 12pm.
Volunteer Opportunity: Seed Packing
Brown County Seed Library Event
Chase away the winter blues by coming together to sort and package seeds for the planting season! As the snow starts to fall, look forward to springtime blooms with us at the Brown County Central Library in the second floor boardroom. Help provide our community with a bountiful variety of FREE locally-grown seeds. Seeds are a valuable food-bearing resource and our volunteers make our mission of empowering individuals to grow their own food possible!
Register for the 9:30am - 12pm session or the 12:30 - 3pm session
Green Thumb Gardening Series
UW Extension Event
Good soils are vital to growing healthy plants. This class will review physical and chemical structure of soils, pH, organic matter and techniques for improving the soil you have. We will also cover soil testing and test results and address selecting fertilizer products (both organic and traditional,) reading labels and calculating application rates. (This class has a fee of $12).