Insect Visitors in Your Garden: Friend or Foe?

Virtual

Insect Visitors in Your Garden: Friend or Foe? When: June 25, 6:30-8pm Where: Zoom REGISTER HERE! Colorado gardens have a wide diversity of insect and arthropod visitors, each playing a key role in the garden ecosystem--yes, even wasps have their purpose! This presentation will go over a broad range of garden insects and arthropods, their […]

SUCCESSFUL HOME COMPOSTING, WITH MIKL BRAWNER

Harlequin's Gardens 4795 N. 26th St, Boulder, CO, United States

Learn how to turn waste into wealth by cultivating soil microorganisms. Nature does the work if you know how to lend a hand. In this class, you will learn what works in our climate, and what doesn’t. Mikl has been composting for 35 years!

Louisville Bee City Pollinator Garden Tour

Memory Square Park Louisville, CO, United States

Welcome to the Louisville Bee City Pollinator Garden Tour! Join us at the beautiful Memory Square Park starting point for a fun and educational, self-guided event showcasing the beauty and importance of pollinators and learn how to create pollinator safe habitats and low-water landscapes.

From Rocks to Dirt: A Soil’s Odyssey

Sandstone Ranch Visitors & Learning Center 3001 Sandstone Drive, Longmont, CO 80504, Longmont, CO, us

Join us for a fun evening led by our very own Natural Resource Technician, Joko McTeer! This evening will be about gaining more knowledge regarding the origin of rocks and soils and how to better understand them. We will have a hands-on soil testing portion towards the end of this event where you will learn multiple ways to test soil so that you can harness the power of soil in restoration and gardening projects!

Harvesting Home: “Em”powering Boulder County’s Food & Energy Future

Jack's Solar Garden 8102 N 95th St, Longmont, CO 80504

Join the Colorado Agrivoltaic Learning Center and Slow Food, Boulder for an inspiring morning at Jack's Solar Garden where you can learn about tangible action you can take to support Boulder County's local food system, local and state policy initiatives, and the renewable energy transition.

Growing Food As Medicine Gathering

Growing Gardens 1630 Hawthorn Ave, Boulder, CO, United States

Cooking dinner from scratch is always a treat, but did you know that home cooked meals can also be good medicine? Our ancestors did. Come learn about the magic of cooking, and the medicinal usage of the common foods and herbs that we have growing in the Harvest of all First Nations Garden.

Fall Forage and Herb Walk with Catherine Hunziker

Herbiculture Hub Farm Empire Road, Louisville, CO, United States

Join us on Sunday September 15th from 10 to 12 for a herb walk and foraging class at the Herbiculture Hub Farm! We will look at the medicinal demonstration garden as well as take a walk around the whole farm to see the wild medicinals and edibles in several different microclimates.

Karl Ford — “The Colorado Trail in Crisis”

Boulder Book Store 1107 Pearl Street, Boulder, CO, us

The Colorado Trail in Crisis addresses the sweeping transformation of western forests and wilderness ecosystems affected by climate change. This book is equal parts trail journal and synthesis of natural and human history. Karl Ford uses research on climate impacts to forests, wildlife, hydrology, and more to stress the urgent need for an action plan to reduce greenhouse gases and save forests and watersheds.

Public Lands Today and Tomorrow: A Field Tour of Forestry and Fire Resilience in the St. Vrain Watershed

Lyons Middle Senior High School McConnell Drive, Lyons, Colorado, United States

Discover the Future of Our Local Landscapes! Join us for a field tour led by members of the St. Vrain Forest Health Partnership. Explore upcoming forestry treatments on U.S. Forest Service lands around Gold Lake and learn about the exciting work happening on Boulder County Parks and Open Space. See firsthand how public land managers are strengthening the resilience of our communities and ecosystems to wildfire.

Fueling a Fertile Future

Elk Run Farm 12191 N Foothills Hwy, Longmont, CO, United States

As many of you know, this event is a time of celebration and brings hope for us all as a community in connection with land. Without healthy land, there is no healthy community. We will join together to reflect on what has been accomplished over the past season, share in the abundant harvest that September brings, and look ahead for our work to come!