Root, The Green Shoppe – a woman-owned, mother-daughter business in Haven Beach – is partnering with the Long Beach Township Marine Field Station at 6:30 p.m. this Thursday, July 8, for a class on the ancient Japanese botanic practice of Kokedama. All ages are welcome.

Kokedama, which is Japanense for moss ball, “originated with the Nearai bonsai method, an art form centuries old,” as the Penn State Extension explains.