Worm Tea at Caribbean Plants and Produce
Freshly made worm tea available every day! Now only $10 a gallon!
Our Worm Tea is an actively aerated brew made with worm castings, well water, molasses, and kelp and is pH neutral. It costs $10/gallon for an ultraconcentrate. Add up to 4 gals of distilled, rain, or well water for maintenance or apply at full strength to sad and sick plants or bug problems. You can also preorder our soil blends, worm bins, and worm starter kits (worms and bedding) for pick up from Caribbean, just email or text to place your order (561)287-0406
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Address: 13527 Okeechobee Blvd, Loxahatchee Groves, FL 33470
Poultry Swap at Red Barn
12948 Okeechobee Blvd, Loxahatchee, FL 33470
August 23rd 9am to 11am
FREE
Join the community as they come together for Red Barn Feed and Supply's Poultry Swap. This event is free to attend but bring cash and a cage or box to take home whatever critters you fall in love with. Generally there are chickens, ducks, turkeys, and quails and sometimes there's stuff like rabbits, pheasants, and geese! I will be there with some Coturnix Quails looking for a new home. Meet food distributors and get free samples and stickers inside. This event occurs on a monthly basis and is free to participate. This is a great way to introduce new genetics to your flock and swap birds with neighbors to avoid inbreeding in your flock.
Build-A-Bin:
Build a Worm Bin with the Worm Queen
Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden
Sunday September 14th at 11 am
Vermiculture, or the raising of earthworms, is a great way to recycle organic waste into high quality soil for your garden. Join Mel, the Worm Queen, for her most popular class! In this workshop we assemble a worm composting system, add bedding, food, grit, and worms. As we assemble our worm bins we will discuss the biology, rearing, and husbandry of eisenia fetida, or the red wiggler. We will go over everything you need to know to successfully worm compost at home; including how worms eat, digest, and mate as well as all the benefits the whole process offers your home and garden. Go home with your own fully functional and ready to use worm bin and your own colony of approximately 200 red wigglers. Containers, worms, and bedding will be provided. Please bring a handful of plant based food scraps from breakfast or dinner to add to your worm bin. Food waste will not be provided so please bring your own fresh scraps. You will take home a fully assembled worm bin, stocked with approximately 200 red wigglers, ready to start composting your food scraps, capable of composting 3 to 7 pounds of scraps a week almost immediately!
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Adding Color to your South Florida Garden
Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden
Wednesday September 17th at 10 am
Gardening in the tropics is different from gardening in the rest of this country. This class focuses specifically on plants that do well in our hot and humid South Florida climate. We review the best native plants, foliage plants, bromeliads, and flowering plants to incorporate into your garden. This class mostly focuses on identifying different plants and goes over some basic garden design. You will learn many different plant varieties and how to take care of them. There will be demo plants available for purchase after the class.
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Intro to Worms
The Acreage Branch Library
15801 Orange Blvd, Loxahatchee, FL 33470
Saturday September 20th
Did you know Charles Darwin’s last book was about worms? Worms, or Annelids, are some of the oldest creatures unchanged by time. They have no bones and are 90% water, however they shaped our entire environment as we know it. In this class we get to meet some squirmy companions as we discuss vermiculture, or the raising of worms. We will go over how to keep worms as domestic livestock and some techniques for composting with worms or breeding worms for bait and soil maintenance.
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Compost 101
Mounts Botanical Garden: Summer Plant Sale
531 North Military Trail, West Palm Beach, 33415
Sunday September 21st
Do you know how many ways there are to compost? Thermophilic, cold, aerated, static, in-vessel, in field, vermicompost, bokashi, etc. There is a method that may be best suited for your circumstances that you haven’t even heard of! In this class we discuss the various composting techniques and the pros and cons of each of them. We go over the best ways to implement these kinds of composting into your garden or farm and how you can expect them to work for you. This class is focused on introducing you to multiple kinds of composting. Even an experienced composter may learn something new.
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Compost 101
Mounts Botanical Garden
531 North Military Trail, West Palm Beach 33415
Saturday September 27th
Do you know how many ways there are to compost? Thermophilic, cold, aerated, static, in-vessel, in field, vermicompost, bokashi, etc. There is a method that may be best suited for your circumstances that you haven’t even heard of! In this class we discuss the various composting techniques and the pros and cons of each of them. We go over the best ways to implement these kinds of composting into your garden or farm and how you can expect them to work for you. This class is focused on introducing you to multiple kinds of composting. Even an experienced composter may learn something new.
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Butterfly Host Plants
Mounts Botanical Garden
531 North Military Trail, West Palm Beach 33415
Saturday October 4th 11am
Butterfly gardening can be tricky if you don’t understand the needs of the butterfly in all its life cycle forms. In this class we focus on Host Plants for the egg and caterpillar stages of various species. We discuss some basic concepts of butterfly garden design and maintenance. We will have a power point presentation of the butterflies in their larval and butterfly phases with images of their host plants. Demo plants and when available actual caterpillars will be there to observe. We will learn how to attract 15 different species of butterflies to your garden. Demo plants will be available for purchase after the class.​
We have many classes and workshops available for adults and children, if you would like to Host or Book a class please request our class menu to see our offerings.
We are now booking for 2026
