Floral Arrangement

Date: July 27, 2025; 10AM - 11:30AM

Location: UCSC Farm; park in the Hay Barn parking lot

Format: In person

Instructor: Katie Chirgotis

Cost: Based on your ability to pay. Workshop fees go to support the Center for Agroecology. Please select the price that works for you. UCSC students may attend for free, please email agroecology@ucsc.edu to register as a student.

Join Katie Wolf, creative director of Eothen event and design floral studio, for a morning of creativity and connection. Take what you learn in this workshop and apply these design principles to your next rendezvous with market bunches, garden cuts, and foraged wonders to bring beauty from the outdoors in.

We’ll begin with a short lecture and demonstration before heading out onto the UCSC Farm to gather our flowers and foliage to use in arrangements. We’ll then arrange together, with time for one-on-one tips, tricks, and feedback.

This hands-on workshop will cover:

• Basic floral design principles.
• Working with vessels accessible in your home.
• Flower selection, prep and care.
• At-home techniques to extend arrangement’s vase life.

About the Speaker

Katie Chirgotis is a practicing florist, student of Nature and seeker of deeper knowing based in Santa Cruz, California. Raised in the marshes of Virginia, her love for the land in relation to body, observation of the tides in relation to breath, and appreciation of the seasons in relation to spirit continues to inform the woman and artist she is becoming today.

As our collective society tilts into a time and experience unlike any other, it is her deep belief that we must look to Earth-based practices and ancestral teachings to call back our humanity, and return to center.

It is her daily effort to make work and act from a place of trust, co-creation and heart-centered intention. Trying, failing, learning, and loving all along the way.

Things to Bring:

• Gardening gloves
• Layered clothing
• Sturdy shoes
• Hat
• Water

Site Conditions

We will be walking up to the fields of the UCSC Farm, which features a small incline/slope. We will be picking flowers on the farm fields which tend to be sunny and hot.

Pre-registration is required for this workshop. Email accommodation requests to agroecology.ucsc.edu.

Presented by the Friends of the UCSC Farm & Garden. Members receive a 10% discount on workshop costs. Learn more about becoming a member and sign up at: https://agroecology.ucsc.edu/get-involved/join-the-friends/index.html