💫🌠🔭 Horoscopes & Telescopes: Astrology & Astronomy in the Garden 🪐🌛🌌
Join us the night of Thursday, May 21st with moon-, planet-, and star-gazing. We’ll have several telescopes set up to look at the waxing crescent moon, planets like Venus and Jupiter, and other deep sky objects!
We’ll also explore horoscopes and tarot to peek into the cosmos and listen to what the stars are saying… 🌠🌝
Learn more about the event on our website—link in bio!
Thursday, May 21
8-9pm
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**UPDATE: The Secret Garden Supper: an offline potluck is Sun 5/17 from 6:30 - 8:30 pm // Whoops! Meant to post this yesterday! Have a beautiful & refreshing week everyone 🌀🌧️
🌱 Plants! Plants! Plants! Every Saturday in May from 11-2 we are spreading the love at our annual Plant Giveaway Fundraiser (pay-what-you-can, $5/plant suggested donation, cash & venmo accepted). Alongside regular Volunteer Hours at @tempgardendc we will have extra crops for folks to grab such as basil, dill, pak choi, kale, collards, tomatoes, tomatillos, hemp, & more, with peppers, eggplants, cukes, melons, & squash to follow later in the month! There are also houseplants for you to take home including spider plants, wandering dude, & succulents. Additional giveaways include nursery planters/trays, larger pots/containers, pawpaw seedlings, and more goodies! All proceeds will go towards Farm The District, the urban farming parter of Temperance Alley Garden. See you there!
Saturdays in May
11am-2pm
UPDATES: Creatives Club & Community Jam is Thursday 5/7 from 6-9pm
Missed Connections: Barter Hour is 5/10 from 5-7pm
She Cried That Day: Documentary Screening is 5/10 7:30-9pm**
// We will soon update the calendar for May programming, so stay tuned! ☀️🌧️
🌟 OPEN MIC & MUSIC IN THE GARDEN 🌟
Our first Music in the Garden of 2026! First, come and participate in an inclusive and unplugged Open Mic from 6:30-8pm. Then, stay for our featured artist Max Powell from 8-9pm. Rock on 🤘🏼🌱
Check out our website (link in bio) for more details on the evening!
Friday, April 24
6:30-9pm
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At the end of 2025, we are full of gratitude for community, creativity, and new friends and neighbors. Here are some scenes from this past fall & winter:
1 • Garden scenes by the talented folks at @urbansketchersdc
2 • A Sukkot meal led by Gabi
3&4 • TAG’s 5th birthday celebration and plant party hosted by Maggie & Chloe, with artifacts from Temperance Alley years’ past
5 • Green tomato harvest with @farmthedistrict
6 • Cory kicks off autumn with an Over the Garden wall showing
7 • A poem comes together during Patchwork Poetry with Sally
8 • Hot sauce making with Jacob
9 • Freshly printed posters dry at Shira’s Know Your Rights Workshop & Art Build
10 • A fall foliage fandango with Stephen
11 • Maggie hosts a gather + replenish event with @freedomhealersdc
12 • Cider making with Sarah
13 • Yael harvests a garden-grown pomegranate!
14 • @the_nocheese_band leads a group sing at Music in the Garden produced by Sally and Lucy
15 • Mantis pals!
16 • Garden Death Cafe guided by Jacob
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