Botanic Garden Offers Workshop on 4 Minim and Ketores

For the 5^th year, the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens will be hosting a special tour of it’s Daled Minim plants and will display its unique collection of the Ketores plants.

Visitors looking for a conveniently located and unique Chol HaMoed attraction will find the perfect outing just few minutes from Crown Heights at the beautiful Brooklyn Botanic Gardens.  You can take the tour to discover the location of the four special Sukkos plants growing in the gardens of the BBG.

Many rare living herbs needed for the Ketores Incense of the Beis HaMikdosh are growing in the BBG. You can see unique plants like frankincense, galbanum, nardin, cinnamon, and myrrh, growing live. Adults and children will be treated to a fascinating interactive hands-on workshop about how to grind these plants into incense.

Workshop participants can sign up for an opportunity to win a FREE Year membership to the BBG and will receive samples of the special incense to take home as a souvenir, (as supply lasts).

The unique plant collections are maintained in the BBG’s world class herbarium archives and are only temporarily being put on display the few days of Chol HaMoed Sukkos Sukkos. This program has been organized thanks to the efforts of Brooklyn Botanical Gardens administration, curator Karla Chandler and botanical connoisseur Yehuda Benchemhoun of Crown Heights.

Receive FREE ADMISSION if you have an Cool Culture Card

TRAVEL DIRECTIONS:
To drive or walk from Crown Heights, proceed west on Crown Street until Washington Avenue, enter at 1000 Washington Ave. and proceed to the greenhouse hall.

By Subway, take the #3 Train to the ‘Brooklyn Museum’ station and enter the gardens at 900 Washington Avenue and proceed to the greenhouse hall.

SAVE THE DATE:
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY –
OCTOBER 19 & 20
1:00 – 2:00 pm FOUR SPECIES TOUR:
2:00 – 3:00 pm KETORES INCENSE WORKSHOP