Debra Kawaller, 58, of Northport went to a canning workshop because of a predicament familiar to many gardeners: She had a peach tree full of fruit that was ready to be harvested.
Happy Girl Kitchen's monthly canning workshops, which are held in Oakland and also on a farm in the Santa Cruz mountains, focus on pickling, fermenting and jam- and jelly-making (happygirlkitchen.com).
Students aged 18-25 can take workshop courses in carpentry, construction, cooking, handmade paper, and theater stage building.
Visitors can attend workshops at the exhibit on Dec. 8, 9, 15 and 16 on subjects like music and design.
Inside, youngsters can enjoy workshops ranging from yak mask-making to mural painting to constructing saddle packs (for yaks, of course), filled with drawings of Tibetan items.
Visitors can take workshops in juggling, cooking, glassblowing and drumming or watch the fledgling actors perform a Shakespearean sonnet along with a little fencing.
There are simple, contemporary rooms to let, and guests can enjoy workshops on using lavender and a show garden with 100 varieties of the shrub.
They also receive online help [2, 16, 17] or can attend workshops at national or international level [11, 18].
Companies can develop workshops to foster greater collaboration and adoption of new technologies.
Smaller groups that don't offer workshops can obtain information about workshops from other groups and disseminate this information to their members through their newsletters or email groups.
