Jason of Wrich Ranches will walk us through the purpose of regenerative ranching focusing on soil health. Wrich holistically manages many acres with a combination of land leases and high country grazing permits. He will discuss how healthy practices not only improve environmental conditions, but help to build a healthy and happy community.

Learn living soil techniques and theory from Miles Filippelli – a lifelong grower, farmer, producer of the wildly popular Fermented Plant Extracts and long time collaborator with BuildaSoil.

Join the Colorado Farm & Food Alliance and The Learning Council for an inspiring, educational day, connecting attendees with local businesses and organizations focused on local and sustainable solutions to our lives, lifestyles and priorities here in western Colorado.

This is a free, family-friendly event for the public. We hope to see you there!

Mason Babcock from Alexa Gray Trees and the Paonia Fire Department hosts this workshop to show us a harmonious way to create defensible space. We will discuss all aspects of fire mitigation with a focus on tree care and regenerative agriculture and the roles they can play in creating a defensible space.

Elizabeth Agee manages the Just Good Food project at the Colorado Farm and Food Alliance and is a permaculture consultant at Backyard Farmstead. Colorado has a large population of native and migratory pollinators, including bees, moths, butterflies, hummingbirds, wasps, beetles, flies and birds that are supported and fed by native plants. In this workshop, we will explore different varieties of flowers, herbs and perennials that support our local pollinators and how we can incorporate them into our back and front yards, farm plans and pastures.

In this workshop, Carole Sikora will teach basic beginner flower-growing techniques, including ground care and soil science for our region, layouts and garden planning, choosing perennials and annuals appropriate for our climate, and how and when to start flowers.

Join the Colorado Farm & Food Alliance for a locally-sourced farm to table dinner to benefit our Equity Garden Incubation Plot!

Barrel Compost was originally formulated by Maria Thun in Germany as a further indication of the biodynamic preparations. Following the tragedy of Chernobyl, it was discovered that remediation of nuclear radiation effects could be enhanced by the use of a concentrated homeopathic preparation using potentized cow manure, egg shells, basalt rock and the biodynamic compost preparations. The preparation is in wide use on many US biodynamic farms today and has been applied consistently to the nuclear accident site and our west coast, resulting from the tragic tsunami and reactor melt in Japan. Learn to make this preparation in this workshop and take the skills to your own farm or garden to enhance and enliven your on farm fertility.

We will make and bury the barrel compost preparation on the incubator site in an amount that has the capacity to cover several hundred acres in our community. This fall Rhythmic activity and burial will greet spring on the incubator farm and our surrounding community