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Classes are the heart and soul of the Boulder Sustainability Education Center. Our focus is on inspiring and empowering folks through hands-on instruction to take more steps towards sustainable living. Start growing your food! Designed for the beginner, this class will cover the basics of small scale vegetable growing, including gardening in containers. Learn how to plant, when to plant, soil needs, watering, pest control and harvesting basics. Students will plant vegetable starts and seeds into containers to take home. If you want to get started, but aren't sure how, or just want to brush up on basics, this is the class for you.
One of the Center's most popular
classes, students will learn an organic, ecological approach to caring
for honeybees without chemicals or treatments. Held in Corwin's apiary
where he has kept bees without treatments and without disease for 11
years, this class combines the latest research into organic approaches
with biodynamic methods and more. The focus is on top bar hives but
techniques are applicable to traditional Langstroth hives as well.
Beginners and experienced beekeepers are welcome.
Co-sponsored with backyardhive.com This class will focus on the steps to establishing for-profit as well as volunteer neighborhood food projects such as CSAs and community gardens in an urban setting. For those who are interested in launching similar projects to Kipp's or just want more information about how he works his magic.
Biodynamic gardening, founded by Rudolf Steiner, is a method of organic farming/gardening that treats farms and gardens as unified individual organisms. The goal is a balanced, holistic interrelationship of plants, soil, and landscape. Biodynamic preparations are the cornerstone of this method. This course will introduce 2 biodynamic preps for compost and gardens, including philosophy, preparation and uses.
One of the Center's most popular
classes, students will learn an organic, ecological approach to caring
for honeybees without chemicals or treatments. This class combines the latest research into organic approaches with biodynamic methods and more. The focus is on top bar hives but
techniques are applicable to traditional Langstroth hives as well.
Beginners and experienced beekeepers are welcome.
Come learn the best varieties of food producing trees and shrubs for Boulder's unique bio-region. Students will tour Harlequins Gardens nursery and learn which varieties thrive here. Mikl Brauner is an accomplished nursery-man with years of experience growing in Boulder. Come learn from his mistakes and successes.
Co-sponsored with Harlequins Gardens A wildly popular photo journey into our wild gardens with a glimpse into the relationships between plants and pollinators. Step into a world of astonishing diversity and discover how you can extend our natural world into your own gardens. Niki is an author of several books including The Guide to Colorado's Natural Gardens, and lectures widely on gardening
There are advantages to gardening with less water, and tricks that will improve your success. Mikls xeriscape experience of over 20 years has taught him tricks that will cost you a lot less than it cost him. Come learn from his extensive experience.
Co-sponsored with Harlequins Gardens For more
information or if you have difficulty registering, please send e-mail
to kelly (at) bouldersustainability dot org
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