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Create Your Own Juniper Bonsai Workshop
Sat, Jun 13
|7221 Sunset Lake Rd
Create and pot your own Juniper bonsai while learning care basics in a peaceful farm setting with our rescued goats. No experience required.
Time & Location
Jun 13, 2026, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
7221 Sunset Lake Rd, 7221 Sunset Lake Rd, Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526, USA
Guests
About the event
Join us for a hands-on Juniper Bonsai Workshop at Smith Farm Goat Sanctuary.
Each guest will receive their own Juniper nursery tree, a pot, wire and bonsai soil.
During this 2-hour hands-on workshop, you will learn the basics of the art of bonsai, learn how to take a nursery stock Juniper and turn it into a bonsai tree. We will provide the tools, guidance and assistance with trimming the roots, determining a tree design for your tree, re-potting using traditional bonsai soil, and perform trimming and wiring of your tree to prepare it for it's first year of becoming a bonsai tree.
You will be provided with at-home care instructions to take and knowledge of how to keep your tree happy and healthy as it begins it's journey to becoming a beautiful bonsai tree.
This class will be held outside in our main field. The goats will not be out during…