Garden for the Environment: DIY Botanical Gifts From the Garden

Join garden educators Carey Craddock and Jordan Kushins for a festive morning making thoughtful gifts inspired by nature. Together we’ll tour GFE to collect botanical treasures, then learn how to use our harvest to create a set of leaf-printed cards, a portable flower press, and a seasonal mini bouquet. You’ll leave this hands-on session with three gifts to give or keep, and full of fresh ideas and holiday spirit!

Instructors:

Jordan Kushins (she / her) writes about creative places, people, and things; draws everything from seagulls to salvias; makes ceramic jewelry and other crafts; and gardens weekly with Carey Craddock, and kids at the Up On Top! program at the Tenderloin Rec Center. She’s a proud Garden for the Environment Get Up! grad, and has since designed sweatshirts, hats, pins, and signs for GFE.

Carey Craddock is a garden coach, consultant, and horticultural enthusiast. She has been teaching at Garden for the Environment since 1998, first as a Get Up! intern, and then as a staff member until 2003. She trained in both CCSF and Merritt College’s landscape horticulture programs, and loves to combine her passion for art and horticulture into creative projects. She runs Carey Craddock Gardens where she specializes in ecological garden design and growing food.