Miraposa Ascendente
Regenerative Gardens & Community Classroom
Colorado Farm & Food Alliance home office
A butterfly rises at the Mariposa Ascendente Regenerative Agriculture Garden and Classroom at Arbol Farm.
Designed by our former program manager, Elizabeth Agee, the Colorado Farm and Food Alliance's outdoor learning space is laid out as a butterfly and showcases regenerative agriculture principles for sensory engagement and to demonstrate various techniques and how they work together.
This community space supports our mission to educate about our region’s agriculture, lands and legacy, and to promote community leadership and engagement in support of food security, improved land health, prosperous farms and workers, and greater rural resilience.
Regenerative and permaculture demonstration gardens
Community learning and timberframe classroom space
Supporting nutritional security with integrated food-crops, skills-building and education, and by directing garden surplus into food-sharing programs
2025 Summer Update
In 2024 Elizabeth guided the re-build and re-emergence of our timber-frame outdoor classroom and learning gardens.
In Summer 2025 Elizabeth relocated to a farm out east but her legacy remains. We are finishing out this space, completing the classroom and fireside, and maintaining the garden beds and plantings.
With guidance from Sarsa, AmeriCorps Servicemember and Amber, and help from volunteers, the community is invited into our garden, as we build out this community learning and sharing space.
In July we moved our home office to the building adjacent to the garden space, which we continue to share with UpRoot Colorado.
Join us Wednesdays through the summer from 5 - 7:30 as we share company and conversation, care for the garden, and teach and learn with each other.
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Pollinator plantings, Three Sisters Garden, berms and swales, alley-cropping, and other permaculture and regenerative agriculture practices are on display, and will be added to as a tool for teaching , hands-on learning, and providing sustenance to pollinators and people.
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The timber-frame outdoor classroom is at the center of the area we stewarding at Arbol Farm. But the entire space provides opportunity for community to come together and learn about growing and land practices that promote broad ecosystem benefits and can also boost on-farm and home garden production.
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We partner with other organizations and local food-sharing efforts to divert surplus produce from our gardens as well as from community-members, into area food pantries and nutrition programs.