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We offer occasional tours and classes, all free. Watch this page for updates on future learning opportunities, or email us to join the mailing list for class, book, and plant announcements. If you have a group and would like to bring them over for a tour or class on a specific subject, contact us and we can set something up. We can talk about perennial vegetables, integrating chickens into your food system, food forestry, disconnecting from civilization, water management, and passive solar retrofitting on a budget. Upcoming ClassesNothing scheduled at this time. Past ClassesPerennial Vegetables: Minimize Work, Maximize Yield!We'll spend a little time talking in general about perennial vegetables (and self-seeding annuals), then take a yard tour to see and taste many of them. We can harvest a salad as we go, and maybe cook up some other interesting foods as the group desires. We'll finish by eating and chatting about whatever questions people still have. Spring greens garden tour to learn what you can harvest this time of year.Starting in late winter or early spring, our garden overflows with lush growth as self seeding annuals and perennials take advantage of warmer days and moist soils. Join us for a tour through our garden as we fill a salad bowl with no-maintenance greens: common garden weeds you'll probably find in your own yard, plus perennial vegetables we've deliberately planted in the past for ongoing harvests each year. We'll also cook up some nettles and maybe other greens, and finish up with a potluck using our greens and whatever you want to bring! Integrating Chickens Into Your Food SystemWe'll talk mostly about our experience integrating free-range chickens into a fledgling food forest of a few thousand square feet. We'll also go over some alternate ideas we haven't personally tried out. We welcome sharing of any experiences you can bring! Some topics we'll discuss:
I posted notes from my class presentation to my blog, including lists of breeds and of chicken tolerant/fodder plants. How to Make a Forest GardenWHAT: How to Make a Forest Garden class, in two parts over two days. Feel free to attend one or both days, but note that part 2 is only open to people who either took part 1 from me, or have read a lot about forest gardens and already have a good theoretical understanding. MORE DETAILSPART 1: Forest Garden Concepts, From Canopy to Ground Cover - We'll look at what constitutes a forest garden, site and owner needs analysis process, design principles, and implementation guidelines. We'll first focus on design of the overstory and woody shrubs and vines, then on the herbaceous understory layers. We'll alternate between lecture and yard tour of our 2.5 year old food forest including many unusual herbaceous species. PART 2: Design a Forest Garden Site - Using our neighbors' mostly "blank slate" yard, and starting with a base map with sectors and zones overlaid, we'll break into teams and design a forest garden to meet our neighbors' goals. We'll spend time on their actual site, then work on paper to create designs. We'll then transfer portions of the paper design to on-the-ground stakes, path layouts, and other representative tricks to visualize the planted, mature food forest. If time permits and people feel interested, we can also design a sample understory herbaceous layer on paper. Perennial RootsWHAT: Short discussion on theory of perennial roots and how to integrate them into a polyculture food system. I'll run down the list of roots we'll look at in the yard, plus some others which sound promising but which I don't have planted yet. Then we'll do a yard tour to look at the actual plants in growth. Past EventsPerennial Root Tasting Open HouseWHAT: Perennial root tasting open house ROOTS TO TASTE: Scorzonera, skirret, oca, jerusalem artichoke, dahlia, yacon, daylily, mashua, cinnamon vine, wapato, and maybe more. |
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