Join us for this free seminar. Learn about the benefits of elderberry. Rachel will demo how to make an elderberry syrup complete with an attendee a taste test at the end.

Saturday, February 1, 2025

1-2 PM 

Paxton COA Community Room
17 West St. Paxton MA

This seminar is free and open to the public.

About the Presenter: Rachel Ross of HillSide Herbals holds Masters in Botany and Masters in Nursing with a specialty in Nurse-Midwifery. She incorporates these loves into a Clinical Herbalist's service of education, herbs, and herbal formulations.

Join us for our annual winter bird feeder ornaments family friendly make & take.

Saturday, February 8, 2025

10-11:30 AM

Paxton COA Basement
17 West St. Paxton MA

Cost: free for members / $10 non-members
Advanced signup and payment required. 

Signup Here: https://forms.gle/bEfkvsd413Cckq5W7 

Come learn the art of needle felting. Participants will learn the how-to's of needle felting to create a shore bird. All materials are included. 

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

6:30-8:30 PM

Paxton COA Community Room
17 West St. Paxton MA

Cost: $10 for members / $20 non-members
Advanced signup and payment required. 

Signup Here: https://forms.gle/E6V5sCzxpjceoXQs8

Join us as Sincerely Michele shows us how to make a wall pocket to hold a spider plant. All materials including a spider plant will be provided.

Saturday, March 15, 2025

2-4 PM

Paxton COA
17 West St. Paxton MA

Cost: $10 members / $12 non-members
Advanced signup and payment required. A minimum of 6 attendees are required hold the class with a maximum of 12 attendees.

Signup Here: https://forms.gle/PyaNMZQDTk74UBP46 

Join us for this free seminar. Four hours of gardening can pose more ergonomic stress than a full week of work. Ergonomics is about fitting the task to the person.  A good fit improves your performance, comfort, productivity and safety.   Learn how your postures, techniques and tools affect your risks and gardening experience. Learn habits to maintain and make correct use of the most valuable tool, your body, so this perfect machine can operate at peak performance and enhance your gardening experience.  

Saturday, March 29, 2025

10 AM

Richards Memorial Library
10 Richards Ave., Paxton MA

This seminar is free and open to the public. In the event of inclement weather the lecture will be held on Zoom.

About the Presenter:  Nancy Brais received her Master’s in Rehabilitation Counseling and retired as an Ergonomics Manager from Raytheon. She developed her passion and knowledge for ergonomics providing disability management services for return to work, loss prevention and musculoskeletal wellness efforts. Nancy is an avid gardener and as such, has personal experience with the aches and pains from the ergonomic risks of gardening tasks. She is a 2018 graduate of the Master Gardener program and became a Landscape Design Consultant through the National Garden Club Federation in 2017. The human body is a wonderful and versatile machine, and no doubt is the most important “gardening tool” you available to you.  DaVinci created his works of art with an appreciation for natural movement and attributes of the human body. This appreciation and understanding of the human body can help you to develop body awareness and ergonomic habits that can keep you digging in your garden in comfort and safety. 

Join us as Miranda shows us how to create botanical art using the Asian brush painting method on rice paper. All materials are included. 

Saturday, April 5, 2025

1-3 PM

Paxton COA Community Room
17 West St. Paxton MA

Cost: free for members / $10 non-members
Class is limited to 12 attendees. 

Advanced signup and payment required. 

Signup Here: https://forms.gle/wKq3LDdF7cGreGnm6

About the Artist: Miranda is an artist local to Rutland. Her primary medias are Asian brush painting, and watercolor. She has a background in martial arts, teaching at Tower Hill Botanical Gardens, wildlife illustration and has studied through Worcester Art Museum.