Garden Bedtime Bash
A free family morning of seed saving, garlic planting and garden care to tuck the Children's Garden in for winter.
Help tuck The Children's Garden in for the winter at our second-annual Garden Bedtime Bash!
You're invited to our second-annual Garden Bedtime Bash! ✨🌙
Join us in the Children's Garden at Gage Park to help put our garden to bed for the winter with seed saving, garlic and bulb planting, leaf collecting, and more! Kids and families will roll up their sleeves, learn hands-on garden care, and celebrate the final harvest of the season. 🍂
🗓️ Date: Saturday, October 17, 2026
🕙 Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
📍 Location: The Children's Garden Project at Gage Park
This fun, FREE hands-on morning invites children and families to help "tuck the garden in" for its long winter nap. Together, we'll:
🌼 Harvest the last flowers, veggies, and seeds of the season
✂️ Learn the "chop and drop" method and help cut back the garden beds
🧄 Plant garlic and spring bulbs to surprise us with the first blooms of spring
🍂 Collect leaves and spread compost to feed and protect the soil
🌸 Create a gorgeous paper flower with Nancy Lalicon from Paper Botanicals!
...and much more! ✨
Kids will discover how simple actions, like scattering seeds, layering leaves, and planting bulbs , make a big difference for the garden's health, pollinators, and soil life. Families will take part in activities that connect us to the changing seasons while learning eco-friendly ways to care for the earth.
This is a joyful, family-friendly workshop designed for curious little gardeners and their grown-ups. Come get your hands in the soil, enjoy the crisp autumn air, and help us give the garden a cozy send-off before winter!
Funders & Special Thanks This event is made possible thanks to the support of the following funders: The Sherman Foundation The City of Hamilton's City Enrichment Fund Hamilton Community Foundation ' s Open Grants fund and fiscal sponsor Conserver Society of Hamilton & District Last but not least, we are eternally greatful for our amazing Little Planters, Plant-Teens, and TCGPC Volunteer Team! Thank you for your continued support, we couldn't do any of this without you all!
About The Children's Garden Project The Children's Garden Project , located within Hamilton's Gage Park, is an imaginative, child-led space where local children can play, garden, connect with nature, and learn about the natural world.
Our organization was born in 2021, when local children dreamed of having a shared garden space to call their own during the pandemic. This dream blossomed into The Children's Garden , a vibrant, living classroom where every seed, flower, and veggie is planted and cared for by children and their families.
We believe that garden spaces and environmental education should be accessible to every child in Hamilton. To ensure this, our volunteer-led organization is committed to keeping all of our programming FREE and open to all.
We've provided FREE garden and environmental education to over 15,000 children and their families over the past five…