Services

LIBRARIES: Accessible Community Education

Libraries are the heart of community learning. My library workshops are designed to be inclusive, accessible, fun, and budget-friendly, often giving patrons a tangible “make-and-take” project to go home with.

• Popular Format: 60-minute presentations with a 15-minute Q&A, or interactive family workshops.
• Key Themes: Container gardening for small spaces, indoor plant care, seed saving, and seasonal garden prep.

HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES AND GARDEN CLUBS: Expert-Level Deep Dives

For the experienced gardeners, I bring advanced techniques, research-backed methods, and fresh perspectives to inspire your members’ next growing season. Let’s customize a presentation or workshop for your upcoming event calendar.

• Popular Format: Featured keynote speaking or specialized, technical workshops.
• Key Themes: Regenerative gardening practices, native plant landscaping, advanced propagation, and pest management.
• The Vibe: Engaging, authoritative, and deeply passionate.
• Adaptable Delivery: I seamlessly adjust my tone and vocabulary to match a room full of energetic 8-year-olds or a hall of master gardeners.
• Interactive Elements: I don’t just show slides. I bring touch-and-feel specimens, demonstrations, and actionable takeaways.
• Stress-Free Booking: I provide my own specialized materials, slides, and promotional copy to make the event organizer’s job as easy as possible.
• Ready to grow something great together?
• Your core botanical interests (e.g., native plants, vegetable gardening, herbalism, or general botany)?
• Your primary goal (Are you looking strictly for educational content, or is your society interested in exploring new ways to generate revenue?)

I’d love to tailor your upcoming program themes to align perfectly with your society’s goals. Once you share your focus, I’ll customize the program to match your needs.

Gawri is featured on the (OHA) Ontario Horticultural Association’s Garden Ontario Speakers List.

Email: gawrim@gmail.com
Website: www.gawrimanecuta.com

SCHOOLS: Interactive & Curriculum Linked (K-G6)

Get students away from screens and into the dirt. My school presentations are high-energy, sensory-rich, and designed to align with science and environmental curricula.

• Popular Format: 45-minute interactive assemblies or hands-on classroom workshops.
• Key Themes: Seed-to-table cycles, pollinators, classroom propagation, and the secret lives of plants.
• The Vibe: Fun, loud, and memorable.

PRESENTATION AND WORKSHOP TOPICS covered but not limited are:

• Intergenerational Bonding: Planting seeds across generations.
• Sensory Gardens: Engaging kids through touch, smell, and taste.
• Legacy Trees: Planting for a future you won’t see.
• Pollinator Heroes: Teaching children to protect bees and butterflies.
• Storybook Gardening: Bringing children’s literature to life outdoors.
• Storybook Garden Journal 
• Healing Earth: Grandparents teaching nature as a quiet sanctuary.
• Tiny Hands, Big Harvest: Simple veggies for impatient children.
• Wildlife Classrooms: Turning backyards into living science labs or stumpery.
• Seed Saving: Passing down heirloom secrets and family history.
• Sustainable Roots: Raising the next generation of eco-warriors.
• Victory Garden Memories: Reviving wartime self-sufficiency for modern grandkids.
• Heirloom Storytelling: Linking family history to specific plant varieties.
• Simple Tools: Teaching grit through manual, old-school gardening methods.
• Winter Sowing for the Canadian zones
• Stumpery – woodland, a child’s outdoor wonderland.
• Storybook Garden Journal
• Creative Writing
• Descriptive Writing