Spring 2014 Classes

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Food Garden Tune Up
Learn some basic natural and organic techniques to reinvigorate your garden. From mulching, worms, and cover crops to succession planting planning you can make this your best garden season yet.
Upcoming dates:
  • Thursday, April 10 - 6pm
  • Sunday, April 13 - 1pm (cancelled due to weather)
$15 - 90 minute class
Sunnyside Farm, 2139 W. 44th Avenue
RSVP Here
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Four Season Growing
People think the Colorado garden season is short but with a few easy techniques you can have fresh fruit and vegetables year round. Learn about produce you can grow each season, techniques for season extension, and how to move it all inside.
Upcoming dates:
  • Thursday, April 24 - 6pm
  • Sunday, April 27 - 1pm
$15 - 90 minute class
Sunnyside Farm, 2139 W. 44th Avenue
RSVP Here
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Living Soil: 
Compost & Worms
It's all about the soil!  Learn how to build and encourage a natural ecosystem that will feed you and your garden for years to come.  From traditional composting to green composting; worms and vermicomposting.
Upcoming dates:
  • Thursday, April 17- 6pm
  • Thursday, May 1 - 6pm
  • Sunday, May 4 - 1pm
$15 - 90 minute class
Sunnyside Farm, 2139 W. 44th Avenue
RSVP Here
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Urban Farming & Climate Change: Building a Caring Economy
Do you know you can have an impact not only on climate change but also on our economy? Urban farming is a good first step toward rebuilding our ecosystem, creating personal and community security, and developing a new, more caring economy.  In this class you will be introduced to new ideas and practices to empower your community and save our world.
Upcoming dates:
  • To be determined
Sunnyside Farm, 2139 W. 44th Avenue
RSVP for Waiting List Here

Customized Group Class:

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We would be happy to customize a class for your own group of 4 or more.  

Urban Farming Basics 
The Growing Power Method: It's All About the Soil!

Take a step toward sustainability!  Get your friends together to learn more about urban farming and sustainability. For groups of 4 or more Trineka Freeman - one of our Community Steward Farmers - will give a one hour introduction to the basic techniques of the Growing Power Method that we use at our Sunnyside Farm at 44th & Vallejo St.  

Topics include: compost, vermicompost, and intensive, biodiverse planting, and planting for fall and winter crops.  

Class fee: $20 per person.  Contact us for more information.
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Past Classes and Workshops

  • Growing Power From the Ground Up Workshop
  • Urban Farmers & Vegetable Gardeners Symposium
  • Penn & Cord Parmenter's High Country Growing
  • Sustaining Yourself in Changing Times with Kate Armstrong
  • Finding Food in the City
  • Permaculture Techniques for City Living
  • Irrigation Basics for Food Gardens
  • Mushrooms for Health: Food, Medicine, Soil
  • Small Fruits for the Front Range
  • Pests and Disease of Small Fruits
  • Weed Identification and Management