Hands-on workshops focused on growing food, working with natural materials and building regenerative systems. Check the schedule for upcoming dates or reach out if you’d like to host a workshop for your group.
Children’s Classes
Build a Bee Home
Bring your group together to build a bee home for our native bees using wild harvested plants. Managed improperly, bee homes can do more harm than good. Learn how to easily manage yours to support the native pollinators and not their problems.
Nature’s Patterns
This children’s program introduces participants to nature’s most common and repeated patterns, how they function for plant, arthropod and animal survival, and how those patterns are replicated in human systems (biomimicry).
Nature’s Apothecary
Usually a spellbound children’s class, we discuss children friendly herbs that delight the senses while soothing the child. They will learn the lore of the plant, the practical uses, how to grow it and take their own herb home with them.
Seasonal: Herbal workshops run July-October
The Soil is an Ecosystem
Kids learn the and see the numerous components that make up living soil. They will recognize healthy, living soil and be able to distinguish it’s difference from dirt. Who knew there was so much life underground that supports human life above ground?
Seasonal: Soil workshops run May-October
Seasonal Classes
Log-Grown Mushrooms
Learn how to grow your own mushrooms on logs. What kinds of mushrooms can you grow, on what types of wood and how to do this from start to finish.
Seasonal: Log-Grown Mushroom workshops run January-February
Growing Living Soil
The soil in your garden is an ecosystem that will support plant health, longevity and production. Learn what to do (and more importantly, what NOT to do to support the microhabitat at the root level. Be ready to set aside some of the most common (and harmful) gardening practices.
Seasonal: Soil classes run from May-October
Living Willow Structures
Learn how to build your own living willow tunnel, fence, play house or even chair with smart timing and management of your willow. Discuss types of willow and how to choose which will be right for your project.
Seasonal: Living Willow Workshops run March-April
Pruning for Health & Production
Watch fruit tree pruning in action and learn what the gardener needs to consider as they decide where and how to make a cut.
Seasonal: Pruning workshops run February-March
Seed Starting
Many new gardeners start with this relatively advanced gardening practice. Learn how to start seeds reliably – between timing, hydration, fans, heat and soil mix, you’ll have all of the tools you need to begin. If you can start your own seeds, you can do anything!
Optional focus: tree, vegetable/flower, winter sowing
Seasonal: Seed starting classes run March-April
Composting – The many ways we turn scraps into gold
See for yourself how we are able to process every bit of plant material back into the garden system, and learn how to engage in composting in alternate methods that we are not currently using on site.
Planning & Design Classes
Introduction to Permaculture
What the term ‘permaculture’ means in relationship to gardening and more. Learn the origins of permaculture, it’s cultural significance beyond the word itself, and how it can be applied as a systems approach to gardening.
Build – a – Guild
How to design a guild for your growing conditions. You’ll learn how to plan in layers of function, layers of growing height, and layers of time to ensure you make the most of your space as well as planning complimentary plant functions together.
Restoring a Living Landscape in the Lawn
From the methods we’ve used to the stories we’ve heard, there are countless ways to replace a lawn with a living landscape. Which works best for you? In this class you’ll learn how to transform your landscape – and how to do it with health and ease.
