SHORT WORKSHOPS FOR GROUPS IN amsterdam
If you are interested please email workshopsams@cityplot.org and we can organise a workshop custom made for a private group. This means that the interested person needs to put together their own group consisting of a minimum of five people, and then choose a workshop from the list below and get in touch with us.
You can also check our online workshops program here
HOW TO GROW AND USE YOUR OWN HERBS
Cityplot presents a workshop on how to grow and use your herbs at home. We will cover how to plant, care, propagate and use common herbs for culinary and medicinal purposes. We will focus on five common herbs: Mint, Parsley, Thyme, Rosemary & Lavender
The workshop includes two activities, making lavender massage oil and propagating rosemary.
Language: English, Dutch
Contact: workshopsams@cityplot.org
PLANNING AND GROWING YOUR OWN URBAN EDIBLE GARDEN
Join us for an informative, hands-on and fun workshop on how to grow your own edible, urban garden in small spaces like balconies, window sills, allotments or roof terraces. Herbs, salads, vegetables, berries, edible flowers and a surprising variety of other plants can thrive with very little space if you know which plants to grow and how to care for them. This workshop is suitable for both beginners and gardeners with some experience. You'll leave with a customized crop plan and seeds, ready to start growing and eating clean healthy food!
Language: English, Dutch
Contact: workshopsams@cityplot.org
INTRODUCTION TO PERMACULTURE
Join us for an introduction to permaculture ethics: earth care, people care, and fair share. We will interactively explore how these ethics and principles can be applied to city garden projects of all sizes.
Language: English, Dutch
Contact: workshopsams@cityplot.org
AMSTERDAM’S FOOD LANDSCAPE BY BIKE
Curious about Amsterdam’s pioneering grassroots local food projects? Join us on a talking tour of Amsterdam hotspots of Amsterdam’s urban farming landscape. Ann will also tell you about the history of Amsterdam’s urban farming movement, the challenges and the successes. This tour can be given for groups of any size, and we can adjust distances and destinations based on your preferences.
Language: English, Dutch
Contact: ann@cityplot.org
AMSTERDAM'S FOOD LANDSCAPE AND HOW YOU CAN HELP IT TO FLOURISH
This interactive presentation gives an oversight of the pioneering grassroots urban food and farming projects taking place around the city of Amsterdam: from community gardens to food waste cafes, and from composting projects to food cooperatives. Prepare to be surprised and inspired to learn about what is happening all around us!
Language: English, Dutch
Contact: workshopsams@cityplot.org
All about composting
Do you want to live a more circular life and start giving your food scraps back to the earth to make compost for your plants? Get more familiar with all that lives in our lovely soil? Even without an outside space it's possible, and it doesn’t smell funky!We can teach you the ins & outs of vermicomposting (with worms), bokashi, mulching, leaf mold, animal manure, green manure, lasagne composting and hügelkultur. There are so many ways, and you can choose between getting really involved or a lazy approach! This workshop can be given inside, but also in a garden, where we can get our hands in the soil building a compost project. Please get in touch to talk over your ideas!
Language: English, Dutch
Duration: tailored from 2 to 4 hours
Cost: Depends on duration and location, let’s chat.
Maximum participants: 15
Contact: workshopsams@cityplot.org
HOW DO I TAKE CARE OF FRUIT TREES AND BERRIES?
Have you always wanted to hear a coherent story about pruning fruit trees and berries?
Together with Zowie from the Fruittuin van West, we will get down to work in this course! We will start with theory inside with coffee or tea, and then move outside. After lunch, everyone will also do a bit of pruning themselves, so that we can immediately put everything into practice! The main focus will be on pome fruit (apple/pear) and stone fruit (cherry/plum) from the Netherlands and the Ribes (currant) and Rubus (blackberry/raspberry) families. Climbers such as grape and kiwi as well as citrus and fig will receive less attention.
Please bring everyone's own pruning tools.
Where: On location (community garden, garden house complex, street or wherever you have fruit)
When: Early January to the end of March
Cost for a half-day session: € 210 excl. BTW
Language: English, Dutch
Minimum number of participants: 4
Max number of participants: 15
Contact: workshopsams@cityplot.org
Build your own terrarium
Would you like to create an oasis for your living/working space, but you don't have time to maintain indoor plants? Join us in our workshop where you will learn to make your own terrarium, a self sustaining ecosystem in a glass vase that brings a bit of green to your life.
During this workshop, Amy will start with a short intro to the history and science behind building a terrirum. She will then guide you through the steps of designing and building your own terrarium. She will also provide you with tips on the minimal work needed to maintain it. By the end of the workshop, you will have your own beautiful terrarium to take home and watch it thrive! All materials included (glass jar, plants, soil, pebbles, etc.)
Duration: 2-3 hours
Language: English
Minimum participants: 4
Maximum participants: 8
Contact: amy@cityplot.org
Foraging and Cooking with Linden Leaves and Water Mint
Learn to identify and sustainably harvest linden leaves and water mint, then transform these finds into delicious vegetarian dolmas. This three-hour adventure includes foraging, cooking and a communal feast. You'll leave not only with a full belly but with the knowledge to forage and cook with nature's gifts.
Duration: 2-3 hours
Language: English
Location: Heemtuin Sloterpark
Maximum participants: 12
Cost: € 360 with materials
Course Fee per: €30-40 per student
Contact: jasper@cityplot.org
Understanding our soils: Cycles, health & life
The mysterious world beneath our feet is receiving more and more attention. And rightly so if you ask us! In our soils the natural cycles are closed so new life can emerge. But how does this work? In this workshop we will have a closer look at these cycles, e.g. the nitrogen (stikstof) cycle, and explore how they flow as well as determining our position in it. We get to know our soils by getting our hands a little dirty and meeting multiple creatures who are doing a lot of hard work for us. At the end of this workshop you have gained a better understanding of our soils and are given multiple hands on tips to take home!
Duration: 2-3 hours
Language : English, Dutch
Minimum participants : 4
Maximum participants: 16
Location: Stadsboerderij Osdorp
Price: 200,-
Contact: naomi@cityplot.org
Flower Power: Garlands and more
A sweet gathering where we take time to see and smell the flowers. Depending on what is blooming, we will bring your tribe a big bunch of flowers and other natural materials to create beautiful garlands. Let’s get radiant!This creative workshop can be combined with aromatics, edible flower snacks & homemade lemonade with, yes, flowers! It’s also possible to include some self care activities like meditation, breathing or simple yoga exercises as well as including rituals and seasonal thoughts. Traditionally Beltane (May 1) and summer solstice (June 21) are celebrations where flower garlands are worn. But it’s fun all flower season ‘round. We can organise a space with you, or come to your garden or home with this workshop. We are looking forward to share the flower power with you!
Duration: 1½ - 4 hours depending on program elements
Language: English, Dutch
Cost: Depends on duration and location, let’s chat.
Maximum participants: 12
Contact: eva@cityplot.org
GROW YOUR OWN HERBAL TEA MIX
Cityplot presents a herbal tea workshop, where you will create your own delicious herbal tea mixes from a selection of herbs and learn about their diverse benefits. We have chosen a selection of easy-to-grow herbs that you can plant on your balcony or garden. These herbs can be used fresh or dried so you have access to a medicine chest of tea varieties all year round. All materials are included.
Language: English, Dutch
Contact: workshopsams@cityplot.org
GROW YOUR OWN SPROUTS AND MICROGREENS
Learn how to grow microgreens and sprouts in your own Amsterdam apartment. Did you know that both sprouts and microgreens are a great addition to your juices and smoothies? In this fun and hands-on workshop, you'll make a tasty and nutritious snack with various sprouts & microgreens, we give you ideas for recipes, and you will take home a hand-out - as well as your own glass jar sprouter and a selection of seeds to start you growing and munching.
Language: English, Dutch
Contact: workshopsams@cityplot.org
COMPOSTING WITH WORMS
Did you know that worms can transform your food scraps into a rich compost? Come along and learn how to make your own worm bin for your kitchen or balcony! You will leave with hungry worms to live in your bin, and information about how to feed them so that they make a delicious treat for your plants.
This workshop is suitable for either indoor or outdoor spaces and for people with no composting experience at all.
Language: English, Dutch
Contact: workshopsams@cityplot.org
FERMENTING VEGETABLES: MAKE YOUR OWN KIMCHI
It's easy and fun to learn to make delicious and gut-health promoting Korean Kimchi! We'll be using a traditional recipe shared with us by Yeon Choi. Kimchi can be spicy, sour, strong flavoured or mild. It is a traditional Korean food preservation technique using natural fermentation, and the perfect activity for an Autumn evening. No experience necessary. You'll go home with a jar of fresh kimchi!
Language: English, Dutch
Contact: workshopsams@cityplot.org
CHRISTMAS WILLOW WREATH WORKSHOP
Want to learn how to make your own Christmas decoration? Come and join Helder Dias Pinto and learn how to make your own decorative Christmas wreath using wild greens from in and around the city.
In this workshop you will learn to create a strong base, which materials to combine and how to engage your creativity. The Christmas wreaths created will be 100% compostable, but can also be dried for a longer lifespan.
Language: English, Dutch
Contact: workshopsams@cityplot.org
MAKING SEED BOMBS: GUERILLA GARDENING WORKSHOP (adult version)
Become a nature activist and help the bees!
Together we will make seed bombs with a huge variety of flower seeds. You will take them home and once dry you can throw and let them explode in places where you think some flowers will be happy to grow. At the same time we are helping the bees and other pollinators, and we are making the city more pretty. In this workshop we will also look at some of the different plant families and you will learn how to recognize them.
Language: English, Dutch
Contact: workshopsams@cityplot.org
GROW YOUR OWN COCKTAILS (or MOCKTAILS)
We will learn how to grow and forage ingredients for delicious and healthy seasonal cocktails. And of course we'll shake some up and taste them to start off the weekend on a good note! Edible flowers and seasonal herbs are the key ingredients .
Language: English, Dutch
Contact: workshopsams@cityplot.org
AN EVENING WITH THE WOLF: AN INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP
Did you know that there are wolves in the Netherlands? Since 2018, this small country has been hosting these majestic animals!
The presence of the wolf raises many questions: are they dangerous to us? What do they eat? Where can they be found? Let's explore together the characteristics of this charismatic but often misunderstood predator that roams free in Dutch nature.
In this introductory workshop on wolf ecology you will learn about where the wolf comes from, what it eats, how it communicates and much more.
Language: English, Italian, Dutch
Contact: giulia@cityplot.org
THE SOUNDS OF THE NIGHT: BAT EXCURSION
If you have a garden or a terrace, you may have noticed some strange silent figures fluttering around at dusk. These are bats that come out of their shelters to take advantage of the midges and mosquitoes around.
Join us on this evening walk: ecologist Giulia will tell you about these fascinating creatures and we will listen to their calls with the help of a bat detector.
Language: English, Italian, Dutch
Contact: giulia@cityplot.org
DAY HIKES IN THE NETHERLANDS/BELGIUM
Come and join Giulia, our ecologist and nature guide, for a beautiful hike (10-15 km) in one of the most iconic landscapes in the Netherlands/north of Belgium. Giulia will share her expert knowledge on the rich flora and fauna living in this area.
Language: English, Italian, Dutch
Contact: giulia@cityplot.org