FALL & WINTER WORKSHOPS & EXPERIENCES!
Turn charcuterie into a work of art! Join Gouda Giggles and Guiding Green Thumbs in the barn for a fun, hands-on Create n’ Sip evening where food and creativity come together.
Each guest will receive their own edible “canvas” along with a beautiful assortment of meats, cheeses, fruits, crackers, and other delicious accompaniments. You’ll learn styling and food-art techniques from Gouda Giggles instructors as you arrange, layer, and design your ingredients into a completely unique edible masterpiece. And because creating is even better with something to sip, we’ll have a selection of both adult and non-alcoholic beverages available to enjoy throughout the evening.
No experience needed—just come ready to create, snack, sip, and have fun! All ingredients, supplies, and instruction are included, and you’ll leave with your finished charcuterie creation to enjoy or share. This event is part of our fundraising efforts to help recover from the flood damage experienced in late July of this year. Thank you for supporting our journey!
Thursday, September 24
6:00–8:00 PM
📍 Guiding Green Thumbs, 278 Rigor Hill Rd, Chatham NY
Space is limited. Advance registration is required.
Workshop minimum: Please note: This workshop requires a minimum of 8 participants. If we don’t reach our minimum, we will notify registered guests in advance and provide a full refund.
📅 Saturday, October 10, 2026
⏰ 1:00–3:00 PM
📍 The Big Red Barn at Guiding Green Thumbs, Chatham, NY
🍫 Presented in collaboration with Gouda Giggles
Grab a friend, bring your sweet tooth, and join us in the barn for a deliciously fun evening of chocolate making!
Gouda Giggles will guide you through a hands-on chocolate experience where you’ll create your own custom chocolate bars and handmade truffles from start to finish.
Choose from an assortment of toppings, flavors and fun additions to make your chocolate creations completely your own. You’ll learn the basics of working with chocolate, make and decorate your treats, and package them up to take home — assuming they survive the ride. 😉
🍫 Your Workshop Includes
● Hands-on chocolate bar making
● Handmade truffle making
● A variety of toppings, flavors and mix-ins
● All chocolate, molds, ingredients and supplies
● Step-by-step instruction from Gouda Giggles
● Packaging for your finished creations to take home
● A cozy fall evening with refreshments inside our historic Big Red Barn
No experience necessary. Just come ready to create, have fun and eat a little chocolate along the way.
Advance registration is required. Space is limited.
Your registration reserves your seat and includes all ingredients, supplies, instruction and the chocolate creations you make during the workshop.
Cancellation Policy: Because materials and ingredients are purchased in advance for each registered guest, workshop registrations are non-refundable. If you’re unable to attend, you may transfer your registration to another person.
Come make something decadent, get a little chocolate on your fingers, and spend a fall evening with us in the barn. 🍫🍂
Price per person: $65/person
Holiday Wreath-Making Workshops Are Back!
Head to our BIG RED BARN for a wreath-making, bow-tying, and beverage-sipping event—basically, all the important holiday life skills—wrapped up in one sparkly, evergreen-scented evening!
What’s Included in Our Wreath-Making Adventure?
🌲 Piles of fresh, fragrant greens — A selective mix for maximum texture, scent, and wow factor. (It’s basically aromatherapy with pine needles.) Plenty of accessories to adorn your wreath!
👣 Step-By-Step Guidance — Learn to craft your own show-stopping wreath, one glorious twist and tuck at a time. No experience required!
🎀 The Bow Tutorial of Legends — We’ll teach you how to tie the kind of bow that makes your neighbors question their life choices… ok maybe not, but we will teach you an EASY way to make a fully festive bow for your wreath or choose one we’ve made in advance!
🍷 Holiday Refreshments & Cheer — Sip, snack, and sparkle your way through the creative chaos!
🔥 Hand Warmers Included — Because we believe in festive cheer, frosty drinks… and fully functioning fingers!
💃 Your Only Job: Dress warm, bring your sparkle, and get ready to slay (and sleigh) the holiday season!
Workshop Date Options:
Friday November 27 (5pm-7pm) Black Friday!
Saturday November 28 (1pm-3pm) Small Business Saturday!
Sunday November 29 (1pm-3pm)
Friday December 4 (5pm-7pm)
Saturday December 5 (1pm-3pm)
Sunday December 6 (1pm-3pm)
Where:
Guiding Green Thumbs LLC
Meet us in the Big Red Barn, Upper Level:
📍 278 Rigor Hill Road
Chatham NY 12037
Registration is required. Don’t delay! These are the only workshops we will be offering this season!
Please note: Tickets are non-refundable BUT transferrable to another person for the same day if you cannot make it.
Note: We will be using a 14” ring to begin our wreath making adventure! Finished wreaths should be generally 18-24” inches in diameter upon completion. Sizes and widths will vary based on how they are built and placement preferences.
This season brought an unexpected challenge to our farm when more than 8 inches of rain fell in a very short period, flooding our fields and causing the loss of more than 80% of our dahlia crop. The damage affected not only this season’s flowers, but also future tuber sales, workshops, and other farm experiences we had planned.
Our fall workshops are one way we’re working to rebuild and move forward. By joining us, you’re not only spending an evening creating, learning, and having fun—you’re directly supporting the recovery of our small farm and helping us prepare for a stronger 2027 season.
We are incredibly grateful to everyone who chooses to attend, share our events, or simply cheer us on. We can’t wait to welcome you to the farm. ❤️
A Spooktacular Kids’ Halloween Experience 🎃👻
Sunday, October 11 | 1:00 PM–4:00 PM
Bring the kids to the farm for a festive Halloween experience filled with creativity, treats, and just the right amount of spooky!
Kids will get to paint their own pumpkin, decorate a cloth trick-or-treat bag, and create a festive paper pumpkin garland to take home for a little handmade Halloween décor. Once their creations are complete, gather the whole family at our spooky Halloween photo backdrop for some fun fall photos and memories.
We’ll keep the Halloween fun going with apple cider donuts, refreshments, and plenty of festive atmosphere in the barn.
Feel free to bring your costumes along to change into and to take family photos using our spooky photo backdrop prop!
Experience includes:
Pumpkin & pumpkin-painting supplies
Trick-or-treat bag & decorating supplies
Paper pumpkin garland craft
Family Halloween photo backdrop
Apple cider donuts & refreshments
A fun, creative Halloween outing designed especially for kids—and a great excuse for the whole family to enjoy a little Halloween magic at the farm. This event is part of our fundraising efforts to help recover from the flood damage experienced in late July of this year. Thank you for supporting our journey!
$40 per child, accompanying adults FREE!
Friday, October 23, 2026 | Guiding Green Thumbs Farm
Join us for our first Great Pumpkin Carve-Off!
🔪 Pumpkin Carving Competition — Adults & Ages 21+ | $45 entry fee
Your registration includes your pumpkin, carving tools and supplies, use of shared specialty tools, adult beverages, refreshments, snacks, and entry into the competition.
Event begins at 5pm, carving must be completed by 7:30pm for judging, photos and prizes!
Advance registration is required. Workshop minimum: Please note: This workshop requires a minimum of 12 participants.
Carve. Create. Compete. Chill. 🎃 This event is part of our fundraising efforts to help recover from the flood damage experienced in late July of this year. Thank you for supporting our journey!
🧙♀️ Grapevine Witch Hat Workshop
A Little Wild. A Little Witchy. Completely One-of-a-Kind.
October 3rd | 1pm-3pm
Join us in the barn for a bewitchingly creative fall workshop! Using natural grapevines, you'll create your own rustic witch hat from scratch, then make it uniquely yours with an assortment of dried flowers and botanical accents grown right here on the farm.
We'll guide you through shaping and securing the grapevines before the real magic begins—decorating! Choose from dried flowers, grasses, seed heads, pods, and other seasonal treasures to create a witch hat that's whimsical, wild, elegant, spooky—or a little bit of everything.
No two hats will be alike, and that's exactly the point.
Your workshop includes:
Grapevines and all materials needed to create your witch hat
A selection of farm-grown dried flowers and botanical accents
Step-by-step instruction and design guidance
Use of all tools and supplies
Refreshments
Perfect for a front door, wall, mantel, porch, or anywhere that could use a little farm-grown Halloween magic.
No experience necessary—just bring your creativity and your witchy side. 🕷️🌿
Space is limited and advance registration is required. All materials are included in the $75 workshop fee.
Learn How to Dig, Divide & Store Dahlias
Sunday, October 25th | 1:00–2:30 PM
Guiding Green Thumbs | Chatham, NY
Growing beautiful dahlias is only half the fun—learning how to successfully save them from year to year is the next step!
Join me for an in-person, hands-on lesson covering the entire process of digging, dividing, and storing dahlia tubers for winter. We’ll start in the field with a demonstration of how and when to properly dig your dahlia clumps, then walk through cleaning, identifying viable tubers, finding the eyes, and safely dividing a clump.
You’ll learn:
How to know when your dahlias are ready to dig
The best way to lift clumps while minimizing broken tubers
How to clean and prepare tubers for dividing and storage
How to identify the crown, neck, body, and eyes of a viable tuber
Step-by-step instruction and demonstration for dividing dahlia clumps
Which tubers to keep—and which ones to toss
Different winter storage methods and the pros and cons of each
What storage medium to use and how to pack your tubers
Ideal temperature and moisture conditions for winter storage
How to check your tubers throughout the winter and troubleshoot rot, mold, and shriveling
Tips for labeling and organizing your collection so spring planting doesn't become a mystery-solving exercise
Q & A
This workshop is designed for both newer dahlia growers and gardeners who have grown dahlias but want more confidence dividing and overwintering their own tubers.
Come dressed for the weather! We’ll work with real dahlia clumps so you can see the process from the ground all the way to winter storage.
Sunday, October 25th
1:00–2:30 PM
In person at Guiding Green Thumbs
Sourdough Workshop with Marcy of Wildflour Cottage Bakery
Sunday, October 4th | 3:00–5:00 PM
$85 per person | Limited to 15 participants
Guiding Green Thumbs | Chatham, NY
Ready to finally understand the magic behind a beautiful loaf of homemade sourdough?
Join us in the barn at Guiding Green Thumbs for an intimate, hands-on sourdough workshop with Marcy of Wildflour Cottage Bakery.
Marcy will walk you through the sourdough process from starter to loaf, helping take some of the mystery—and intimidation—out of baking. You’ll learn the techniques, timing, and little details that make the biggest difference between “Well, it’s technically bread…” and a loaf you can’t wait to slice into.
During this two-hour workshop, Marcy will cover sourdough fundamentals, including working with and maintaining a starter, mixing and developing your dough, fermentation, shaping, baking, and troubleshooting common sourdough problems.
Whether you’re brand new to sourdough or have a starter sitting in your refrigerator that you’re not quite sure what to do with, this class is designed to give you the knowledge and confidence to continue baking at home.
Sunday, October 4th
3:00–5:00 PM | $85 per person
~AS A BONUS: Receive your own sourdough starter to take home and start practicing those skills! ~
Space is intentionally limited to 15 participants to keep the workshop personal and allow plenty of opportunity for questions and hands-on learning.
Come spend a cozy fall afternoon in the barn, learn a new skill, and discover just how rewarding homemade sourdough can be.
Hudson Valley Cut Flower Farm Specializing in Dahlias
Farmstand Bouquets, Dahlia Tubers, U-Pick Flowers (coming 2027) & Seasonal Workshops in Chatham, NY
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