Upcoming Events:

March 24-25, 2012:  Urban Farmers and Vegetable Gardeners Symposium featuring Will Allen  Sign up for more information here.

Summer Workshops

As summer is very busy with planting, weeding, harvesting and marketing, our offerings are very casual.  The following list is of workshops we will be holding at our farms.  At our Sunnyside Farm at 44th & Vallejo we will hold the courses during our Wednesday farm markets.  At our Parking Lot Farm in Swansea at 42nd & Steel you will join own Community Stewards and New American Farmers as they improve their own skills.  Course fee will be a $20 donation.

Proper Water Usage

How do you deal with the changing weather, the monsoon rains, the dry hot days?  Sometimes just adding water is not the answer.  Learn from our urban farm specialist about how to manage your garden irrigation.
44th & Vallejo:  Wednesday, August 10th, 5:30 pm
42nd & Steele:  Friday, August 12th, 9:00 am
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Harvesting and Recordkeeping

Those tomatoes and peppers look just lovely on the plant but when do you harvest them? Should you be pruning the plant or letting it run  wild?  There are ways to encourage more productivity as well as ways to evaluate vegetables for seed saving to prepare for next year's garden.  Join our urban farm specialist as she tours you through our  farms and shares productivity and evaluation techniques.
44th & Vallejo:  Wednesday, August 17th, 5:30 pm
42nd & Steele:  Friday, August 19th, 9:00 am
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Pollinating and Seedkeeping

Is that the best pepper you've ever tasted?  Did your favorite basil go to seed?  How do you decide which seeds to save?  Our urban farm specialist will guide you through the confusing world of self-pollination and seedkeeping.
44th & Vallejo:  Wednesday, August 24th, 5:30 pm
42nd & Steele:  Friday, August 26th, 9:00 am
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Soil Management

It all begins with the soil.  If you have great soil everything seems to fall into place.  But what can you do when your back yard garden is packed clay?
44th & Vallejo:  Wednesday, August 31st, 5:30 pm
42nd & Steele:  Friday, September 2nd, 9:00 am
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Understanding Freestyle Composting

Bins, boxes, balls...all for compost, nature's most natural process.  How do you decide or can you actually freestyle it?  Learn the easiest way of composting and techniques to improve and increase your compost production.  Start now and you can make all of your compost for next year's garden. 
44th & Vallejo:  Wednesday, September 7th,  Cancelled
42nd & Steele:  Friday, September 9th,  Cancelled
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Weed Identification and Usage

You call it a weed, others eat it...what gems are hidden behind your garage? Our urban farming specialist will introduce you to the mysteries of "free growing" vegetables from purslane to lamb's quarters.   Take this class and when your neighbor asks when you are going to weed your garden you can say, "What weeds? We eat those!" 
44th & Vallejo:  Wednesday, September 14th, 5:30 pm 
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Techniques for Year Round Growing

We eat year round...there's no reason we can't grow year round.  Join us as we succession sow and plan for autumn, winter, and yes spring crops.  From cold weather crops to row covers and do it yourself low tunnels and cold frames our urban farming specialist will take you through the hoops (as they say!)
44th & Vallejo:  Wednesday, September 21st, 5:30 pm
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Pests & Disease Management

What's happening to my tomato plants?!!  Is it a pest?  Is it a disease?  How can you deal with it in a healthy organic way?  Join our urban farming specialist to find and identify pests and diseases in our own farms.  Learn techniques to prevent infestation as well as to strengthen the plants so they can withstand assault.
44th & Vallejo:  Cancelled
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Aquaponics Production

Take a first look at our new aquaponics project.  We've joined Architecture for Humanity, Turnkey Aquaponics and others to develop a prototype low energy use growing structure for aquaponics fish and produce production.  
44th & Vallejo:  To be rescheduled...sign up for our mailing list to be notified by newsletter! 
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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
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