Events

2023 Garden Events at Avena Botanicals

We are pleased to offer several garden events at Avena Botanicals in Rockport, Maine this summer. Attendance is limited, and we will start selling tickets next month. In the meantime, keep your calendar clear for the events of your choosing:

Tickets must be purchased online in advance; no tickets will be sold at the gate on the day of the event.  

Monday, June 19th, 3-4pm: Medicinal Herb Garden Walk
(this walk also explores plants and herbs who attract pollinators)
Led by herbalist and Biodynamic gardener Deb Soule
** Event is full. Join the waitlist! **

For over 30 years, herbalist Deb Soule has been observing and organically growing flowers for pollinators that include ruby-throated hummingbirds, native bees, honey bees, and monarch butterflies. Join Deb during National Pollinator Awareness Week for an inspiring and informative walk through Avena Botanicals' sanctuary gardens as she points out and speaks about growing flowers for pollinators and medicinal herbs for people. Half the proceeds of this walk will be donated to Dr. Rocio Alarcon's Iamoe Center in Ecuador and the other half to support the pollinator gardens at Avena. Ecuador has the highest diversity of hummingbirds. Deb will briefly describe Rocio's healing work with hummingbirds. Ticket price is $25/person (adults and children 5+); children 4 and younger may attend for free.

Saturday, July 1st, 6:30-8pm: Notes from the Hummingbird Corridor

Herbalist Deb Soule and Poet Laura Brown-Lavoie will share stories, poems, and prose from their two-week journey during the fall of 2022 following the ruby-throated hummingbirds migration routes south and west. They spoke with a few ornithologists, artists, and healers and spent a day on the Alabama coast observing and interviewing licensed hummingbird bird banders. Deb's curiosity, concern, and research about ruby-throated hummingbirds and the health challenges these amazing migrating birds face is ongoing. Laura and Deb are collaborating on a small book that will contain their writings and also information to encourage gardeners, schools, universities, and municipalities to take up the work of eliminating toxic herbicides and pesticides and instead plant more pollinator habitats and educate their communities about the importance of pollinators. We invite you to bring a hummingbird story to share. Free with donations accepted for supporting the printing of Laura and Deb's self-published book.

Thursday, July 13th, 3-4pm: Medicinal Herb Garden Walk
Led by herbalist and Biodynamic gardener Deb Soule
** Event is full. Join the waitlist! **

Step into the gardens of Avena Botanicals and enjoy a delightful tour led by herbalist Deb Soule, who will speak about a variety of medicinal plants. Ticket price is $15/person (adults and children 5+); children 4 and younger may attend for free.

Thursday, August 3rd, 3-4pm: Medicinal Herb Garden Walk
Led by herbalist and Biodynamic gardener Deb Soule
** Event is full. Join the waitlist! **

Step into the gardens of Avena Botanicals and enjoy a delightful tour led by herbalist Deb Soule, who will speak about a variety of medicinal plants. Ticket price is $15/person (adults and children 5+); children 4 and younger may attend for free.