Celebrate the harvest season and grow your plant family by swapping siblings and propagating with us at Femme Fatale, DC! Show off your secret recipe too by bringing a dish to our potluck.
We will be grounding ourselves in the beginning of the harvest season, or Lughnasadh. It is the halfway point to the fall equinox. It’s the moment to show our infinite gratitude to Mother Earth, and hope for future harvests to come.
Tickets are free if you bring 5 plants or cuttings, or if you bring a potluck dish.
Before the Swap!
Please leave a comment with a list plants you may bring, so that we know what category signs to make for organizing.
Try to label your plant with its:
Name
Your social media handle
Light/ water requirements, etc.
If you're bringing a dish please leave a comment with what entree, dessert, or alcoholic drink you will bring.
August 1: Day of Event
2. Set up is from 2-5 pm.
Please drop your plants, food, and drinks off any time August 1 from 3 pm to 6 pm. You can organize your plants in the different categories we will make.
We would be thrilled to have extra dishes and plants, if you have any to share! Also extra volunteers are always welcome.
3. Event is 6 - 9 pm.
Plants and food are stories. We will have a short share and tell session where you have the opportunity to share a special memory, association, or special use for the plant or food you brought.
The swap will be done in shifts of 3. Each person will be counted off into group 1, 2, or 3. Each group will take turns choosing a plant from the lot. Each "shift" will be about 20 seconds, and we will cycle through until about all the plants are gone, and do a free for all for the stragglers that are left over.
If there's time left over, we will have a crash course in plant propagation where you can propagate more plants to take home.
4. Break down is at 9 pm.
Coming soon... There will be an Instagram door prize contest. All you need to do follow @glassceilingplants. I'll be posting some pictures of the prizes soon. There will be 5 winners who can choose their pick of one for sale plant from the shop. Available plants include red Abyssinian bananas, Washingtonian palms, Meyer lemons, potted papyrus, passionflower vine, and more.
Follow @glassceilingplants on instagram, share on your story, like and tag someone in the comment section to be entered. Each additional tag is an additional entry.
Each winner receives one plant. As always, GCP plants come with trouble shooting from a professional horticulturist, lil’ old me.
Our goal is to have a community building event where we can connect with each other through sharing plants, food, and drink! Also please bare with us as this is the first time we are organizing a plant swap at Femme Fatale.
Afterwards, pop into the glassceilingplants facebook group, where we can continue to support each other in growing as mindful gardeners. Find out more about GCP at glassceilingplants.wordpress.com.
Meet the host!
Caroline Hooks (she, her), owner of glassceilingplants, is a well-seasoned intersectional horticulturist. Her work has included many different settings including a plant research facility, the landscaping industry, a tree farm, ornamental plant nurseries, a conservatory, many greenhouses, and a theme park. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Horticulture and is pursuing a Masters of Professional Studies in Applied Entomology at UMD. She is also a Maryland Certified Pesticide applicator.
Horticulture was chosen by her abuser and father. The same field that she was ashamed of, slowly allowed her to grow and heal. After a long journey in a male-dominated industry, she finally loves her day job and is in CPTSD recovery. She wants to share the work she has done and the inspiration that can be drawn from mindful gardening.”
“I thought of the name ‘glassceilingplants’ while walking across the gutters of the glass greenhouse I work in. Our mission is to support gardeners of every race, class, gender, & age in creating gardens that steward ecological services and provide grounding sensory experiences. I aim to educate people on the psychological benefits of connecting to their own nature through the organisms they can help bring life to and those organism’s seasonal phenology. (Phenology: the study of cyclic and seasonal natural phenomena, especially in relation to climate and plant and animal life.)
I want to create something like a “Master Gardener” program that is a little more edgy, targeted at Millennials, Gen X, and Gen Z. I truly believe these programs make communities stronger, though they are currently only available during working hours.
You can purchase plants propagated by yours truely at Femme Fatale DC, 3409 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008.
I also want to use this platform to share my story, advocate for child abuse victims and survivors, universal health care, and equity in general."
Find out more about GCP at glassceilingplants.com.