Garlic + Bloom Bouquet Workshop (PLUS Pop-up Farm Stand)

Make something beautiful. Meet someone new. Support local farmers.

Join us to arrange gorgeous garlic stems and summer blooms into one-of-a-kind bouquets you can take home — wrapped in craft paper or placed in your own vase.

But this is more than a flower workshop! It's a space to slow down and connect. Come meet others with shared interests, sip fresh seasonal teas, and browse the pop-up farm stand. It’s a celebration of local growers, a space to get creative, and celebtrate seasonal abundance

You’ll leave with:

• A fresh bouquet of garlic stems + flowers from Grass Becomes a Wave
• Knowledge and wisdom from a local grower
• Inspiration from new connections and meaningful conversations
• A deeper connection to land, creativity, and community

We’ll provide all the materials (garlic stems, blooms, craft wrap), and you’re welcome to bring your own gloves, pruning scissors, or vase. This event is open to ages 14+.

📅 Date: Sunday, August 17

🕐 Time: 1:00–3:00 PM with farm stand open until 4pm

📍 Location: The Collective, Oak Harbor

Priscilla Watson creates beauty from soil to table. She is a farmer, floral artist, event producer, and community chef. Through her farm, Grass Becomes a Wave, she grows flowers and produce that she sells at weekly farmers markets in Oak Harbor and Coupeville.

Wellness and care are at the heart of everything Priscilla creates. She also incorporates her flowers into bath and body remedies, hand crafted with mother for Wato Soap.

At the Garlic + Bloom Workshop, she’ll guide you through simple bouquet-making instructions that will inspire you to make your own seasonal arrangements.

Browse a seasonal selection of goods and fresh produce from local farmers at our pop-up farm stand, open to the public from 1pm-4pm.

You’ll find vegetables, herbal teas, and a limited number of garlic bouquets available for purchase. Come by to support local growers and take home a taste of the season!

Rewild Learning produces events and experiences that help you build your village. We uplift the wisdom of a community through skill shares and joyful gatherings. Whether you’re learning how to tend a garden, connect with your breath and body, or raise a family in tune with your values — we believe resilient communities learn together.

This event is a fundraiser for more accessible and enriching community events like this!

Grass Becomes a Wave and Rewild Learning are founding members of Heavy Nettle Farm Collective, a grassroots group of farmers, creatives, and community weavers working to grow a more connected and resilient Whidbey Island.

Heavy Nettle hosts events like the annual Great Whidbey Seed Swap and seasonal pop-ups that center farmers, families, and joyful community care.

Ticket sales and sponsorships help to sustain Heavy Nettle events like this and keeps them accessible to the community.

This event is offered on a sliding scale to make it accessible while covering the real costs of time, materials, and space. We invite you to choose a rate that works for you:

• Nurture the Roots ($10–40): For those in a season of rest, recovery, or financial precarity. You help cover cost of materals and nurture the garden grow by showing up.
• Tend the Garden ($40–100) For those who can meet their needs with relative ease and are able to help sustain the cost of this event for yourself and others. You cover material costs, labor for the event, and help keep the soil rich for others.
• Seed the Future ($100–$1000) For those with abundance to share — your contribution helps this work grow, covers true labor costs for producing community events, supports access for others, and seeds future gatherings. For more info on sponsorships, please email hello@blackgirlcountryliving.com
• Scholarships Available: We have a few sponsored seats available. Please email hello@blackgirlcountryliving.com to request a scholarship.

We trust our community to choose a price that reflects your access to resources — and to give generously if you can. Every ticket supports both this experience and future programming by Heavy Nettle Collective and Rewild Learning. Thank you for helping us grow this work!