Eco Flowers For Kids at Manhattan Children's Theatre

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Kids Learn About Sustainable, Eco-Friendly Flowers with Organic Bouquet
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Organic Bouquet, in conjunction with the Manhattan Children’s Theatre, is pleased to present a very special weekend event for kids titled “Eco-Flowers for Kids” – An interactive show for all ages in which an experienced flower farmer teaches children and parents about the beauty and care of sustainably grown flowers. Best of all, everybody who attends this fun educational event gets to take home an 18 stem flower arrangement that they make themselves! (Flowers provided by Organic Bouquet.)

The workshop will run five times between Friday, August 13th (at noon) and Sunday, August 15th (show times on Saturday and Sunday are at noon and 2:00 PM). Each child will learn facts about flowers such as ‘Why do roses have thorns’ ‘What is the natural flower food recipe’ and useful tips including ‘How to properly cut roses’, and ‘How to make beautiful flower arrangements’.

The program is hosted by Ecuador-based Robin Peñaherrera, of Organic Bouquet, whose 20 years of floriculture expertise have emphasized environmentally and socially responsible practices with sustainably grown flowers.

The workshop runs Friday, August 13th at noon and Saturday/Sunday August 14 – 15th 2010 at noon and 2:00 PM at the Manhattan Children’s Theatre, which is located at 52 White Street in Tribecca, Manhattan. To reserve tickets, please call 212-352-3101. Visit mctny.org for more information.
 
Best wishes Ramiro~!

I want to pursue some of the items we have discussed the last couple days too, like Fair Trade Flowers and other items only a local florist can provide.

Talk to you again next week.
 
From the New York Times


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/arts/13kids.html


For Children

By LAUREL GRAEBER

Published: August 12, 2010

Robin Peñaherrera started out as a stand-up comedian in San Francisco. Now he’s a flower farmer in Ecuador. But this weekend in New York he promises to play both roles.
“It’s a little like Jerry Seinfeld going on the road and doing small clubs,” Mr. Peñaherrera said of his touring interactive workshop, “Eco-Flowers for Kids.” The program is “about as long as a sitcom,” he added, though it’s doubtful that Mr. Seinfeld and his television gang could explain plant life as easily as they once drew laughs. Mr. Peñaherrera can, and when he visits Manhattan Children’s Theater Friday through Sunday, he will give young audiences lively lessons in the care, feeding and arranging of flowers.
The workshop, which involves more blossoms than an opera diva’s farewell curtain call, will end with each child taking home two bunches of roses — a minimum of 18 stems — and other blooms to make an arrangement. (Organic Bouquet, an online florist and co-presenter of the workshop, will donate the materials.) But families will also take away information on sustainable, environmentally friendly flower growing.
Instead of spraying pesticides, “we breed carnivorous spider mites to eat the herbivorous spider mites that hurt the flowers,” Mr. Peñaherrera said. His farm also vacuums the insects off its plants and filters out miner flies (bad) from parasitical wasps (good). And to deter hummingbirds, which dehydrate delphiniums, organic growers rely on garlic-and-pepper spray.
The program, geared to ages 7 to 12 (though younger and older participants are welcome) will offer intriguing facts, like the way in which a rose’s thorn is like a camel’s hump, how a clipped stem is comparable to a finger with a paper cut, and what recipe will help blooms stay fresh in a vase. “We like lemonade, and so do flowers,” Mr. Peñaherrera explained. He will also reveal the secrets of flower arranging, which he compared to a Bach cantata. (Above, children after a workshop.)
“It’s a call-and-response script,” he said of the event. And since audiences sometimes give unexpected answers, he needs a comic’s ability to react. “I once asked, “What do you call an animal that will eat a rose?” Mr. Peñaherrera said, thinking of “herbivore.” “And one kid said, ‘A vegan.’ ”
(Friday at noon; Saturday and Sunday at noon and 2 p.m.; Manhattan Children’s Theater, 52 White Street, near Church Street, TriBeCa, 212-352-3101, theatermania.com; $20.) LAUREL GRAEBER