Grow + Make: Spirited Botanicals!

Saturday, April 25, 2026
10:30am-12:30pm
San Francisco County Fair Building — Recreation Room

About the Program 

Registration includes all materials.

Bring new life to your beverages with fresh ingredients you can grow at home! Join San Francisco gardeners Carey Craddock and Jordan Kushins for this spirited introduction to botanicals, including: how to preserve a variety of flowers and herbs in simple syrups, vinegar shrubs, salts, and infusions; and how to use garden garnishes to make your cocktails, low-ABV, and non-alcoholic refreshers taste amazing (and look fantastic!). 

Everyone will leave this hands-on session with their own custom botanical creations, and inspiration to experiment making delicious drinks.

About the Grow + Make Series

This is part two of a four-part Grow + Make series led by Carey and Jordan this year. They are standalone sessions, but each will build on the last for repeat attendees. Stay tuned for upcoming classes: 

• 8/15/26: Grow + Make: Everything is Jewelry — Forage and design plant stuff (leaves and flowers, pods and wood) into uniquely ephemeral accessories.

• 12/5/26: Grow + Make: Botanical Print Cards and Presses — Learn to print holiday cards with fresh leaves and flowers, and put together a portable plant press to keep or gift!

About the Instructors

Carey Craddock is a garden coach, consultant, and horticultural enthusiast. She has been teaching at Garden for the Environment since 1998, first as a Get Up! intern, and then as a staff member until 2003. She trained in both CCSF and Merritt College’s landscape horticulture programs, and loves to combine her passion for art and horticulture into creative projects. She runs Carey Craddock Gardens where she specializes in ecological garden design and growing food.

Jordan Kushins (she / her) writes about creative places, people, and things; draws everything from seagulls to salvias; makes ceramic jewelry and other crafts; and gardens weekly with Carey Craddock, as well as kids at the Up On Top! program at the Tenderloin Rec Center. She’s also the founder of outer outer .space — a resource offering online and IRL inspiration to make, learn, collect, do, and share.

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Gardens of Golden Gate Park Members: You are entitled to a 20% discount for this event. To secure your discount, please enter the Member Discount Code in the “Promo Code” field when checking out. For the Member Discount Code for this offering, please contact membership@gggp.org. Discount codes do not apply to the “Pay What You Will” price level.

Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable