Gardening Classes & Workshops in Columbus, Ohio and Beyond
Whether you're a beginner gardener or looking to deepen your skills, explore practical, approachable classes in ecological gardening, permaculture, food forests, mushrooms, foraging, and more.
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Columbus Garden School
In-Person in Columbus, Ohio
Need some help with your garden? You’re in the right place. This session offers dedicated garden work time with a balance of independent focus and personalized support from instructor Ayla Bella. Not a lecture: an open, flexible workspace with guided support. You can troubleshoot issues, refine plans, and clarify next steps. Support will be tailored to your space and your needs, but the instructor emphasizes ecologically thoughtful and lower-maintenance gardening, including soil health, plants that are native, resilient, and/or food producing, and working efficiently with your existing site conditions.
Date: Monday, September 28
Time: 6:00-7:30p
Location: 1350 East Cooke Road, Columbus, OH
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Core Classes
Resilience Gardening
This class introduces the five pillars of Resilience Gardening: resource, ecological, social, political, and emotional resilience. We’ll explore how gardens can meet real needs and act as tools for justice, connection, and climate adaptation. Leave with a vision and a toolkit for growing more than just food.
Garden Grown Gourmet Mushrooms
Learn how to grow delicious mushrooms alongside your veggies, herbs, and perennials. This beginner-friendly class covers low-tech, mostly-outdoor cultivation using logs, beds, and buckets. Mushrooms play a powerful role in building ecological and resource resilience - no lab coats required, just curiosity and a love of fungi.
Lower-Maintenance Gardening
Gardening doesn’t have to be exhausting to be abundant. In this class, you’ll learn how to design resilient, lower-effort gardens using eco-friendly principles. Discover how to work with nature to build abundance without burnout.
From Harm to Harvest: An Introduction to Foraging
Discover how foraging can nourish both you and the land. Learn to safely identify edible plants, understand native vs. invasive species, and harvest with care. We'll explore the ethics, history, and hands-on practices of neighborhood foraging.
The Garden Support Studio
Bring your plans, questions, and ideas and experience two hours of dedicated garden planning and troubleshooting time with instructor support.
Past Sections
Garden Support Studio
August 17th, 2026 | 6:30-8:30p | Columbus Garden School
Bring your plans, questions, and ideas and experience two hours of dedicated garden planning and troubleshooting time with instructor support.
Garden-Grown Gourmet Mushrooms
August 29th, 2026 | 1:00-3:00p | Columbus Garden School
Learn how to grow delicious mushrooms alongside your veggies, herbs, and perennials. This beginner-friendly class covers low-tech, mostly-outdoor cultivation using logs, beds, and buckets.
Garden-Grown Gourmet Mushrooms
April 18th, 2026 | 1:00-3:00p | Columbus Garden School
Learn how to grow delicious mushrooms alongside your veggies, herbs, and perennials. This beginner-friendly class covers low-tech, mostly-outdoor cultivation using logs, beds, and buckets.
Lower-Maintenance Gardening
March 22nd, 2026 | 4-6p | Columbus Garden School
Gardening doesn’t have to be exhausting to be abundant. In this class, you’ll learn how to design resilient, lower-effort gardens using eco-friendly principles.
Garden-Grown Gourmet Mushrooms
March 22nd, 2026 | 1-3p | Columbus Garden School
Learn how to grow delicious mushrooms alongside your veggies, herbs, and perennials. This beginner-friendly class covers low-tech, mostly-outdoor cultivation using logs, beds, and buckets.
Garden Support Studio
March 18, 2026 | 6:30-8:30p | Columbus Garden School
Bring your plans, questions, and ideas and experience two hours of dedicated garden planning and troubleshooting time with instructor support.
Resilience Gardening
June 22nd, 2025 | 1-4p | Columbus Garden School
This class introduces the five pillars of Resilience Gardening: resource, ecological, social, political, and emotional resilience. We’ll explore how gardens can meet real needs and act as tools for justice, connection, and climate adaptation.
Lower-Maintenance Gardening
May 24th, 2025 | 1-3p | Columbus Garden School
Gardening doesn’t have to be exhausting to be abundant. In this class, you’ll learn how to design resilient, lower-effort gardens using eco-friendly principles.
Garden-Grown Gourmet Mushrooms
April 29th, 2025 | 6:30-8p | Virtual
Learn how to grow delicious mushrooms alongside your veggies, herbs, and perennials. This beginner-friendly class covers low-tech, mostly-outdoor cultivation using logs, beds, and buckets.
Lower-Maintenance Gardening
April 6th, 2025 | 1-3p | Columbus Garden School
Gardening doesn’t have to be exhausting to be abundant. In this class, you’ll learn how to design resilient, lower-effort gardens using eco-friendly principles.
Garden-Grown Gourmet Mushrooms
March 30th, 2025 | 4-6p | Columbus Garden School
Learn how to grow delicious mushrooms alongside your veggies, herbs, and perennials. This beginner-friendly class covers low-tech, mostly-outdoor cultivation using logs, beds, and buckets.
Garden-Grown Gourmet Mushrooms
March 30th, 2025 | 10-12p | Columbus Garden School
Learn how to grow delicious mushrooms alongside your veggies, herbs, and perennials. This beginner-friendly class covers low-tech, mostly-outdoor cultivation using logs, beds, and buckets.
Lower-Maintenance Gardening
September 4th, 2024 | 6-8p | Virtual
Gardening doesn’t have to be exhausting to be abundant. In this class, you’ll learn how to design resilient, lower-effort gardens using eco-friendly principles.
From Harm to Harvest
July 6th, 2024 | 10-12p | Columbus Garden School
Discover how foraging can nourish both you and the land. Learn to safely identify edible plants, understand native vs. invasive species, and harvest with care.
Lower-Maintenance Gardening
July 6th, 2024 | 4-6p | Columbus Garden School
Gardening doesn’t have to be exhausting to be abundant. In this class, you’ll learn how to design resilient, lower-effort gardens using eco-friendly principles.
Lower-Maintenance Gardening
May 25th, 2024 | 1-3p | Columbus Garden School
Gardening doesn’t have to be exhausting to be abundant. In this class, you’ll learn how to design resilient, lower-effort gardens using eco-friendly principles.
Lower-Maintenance Gardening
March 30th, 2024 | 4-6p | Columbus Garden School
Gardening doesn’t have to be exhausting to be abundant. In this class, you’ll learn how to design resilient, lower-effort gardens using eco-friendly principles.
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