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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.


Announcement: After an extremely busy Spring and Summer season, we will be taking a much needed break to rest, rejuvenate and revamp our class offerings.  We expect to resume classes again in February or March 2009.  If you have suggestions for classes you would like to see offered, or are interested in being an instructor, please contact us. 

Thank you for your interest!
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Past Classes:

  • Four Season Gardening for the Front Range with Kelly Simmons, BSEC and Eric Johnson, peaksoil.com
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    Learn the secrets of microclimate, cold frames and heat sinks for growing cold season vegetables year round. You CAN have fresh homegrown salads in your backyard November through February! (Some knowledge of gardening is recommended for this course.)

  • Backyard Chickens with Kelly Simmons, BSEC and Jamie Furstoss, Earthstar Farms  
    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.

  • Home Grown Fruits for Boulder with Mikl Brawner of Harlequins Gardens
    • 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.
  • Organic Backyard Beekeeping with Corwin Bell of BackyardHive.com and Kelly Simmons of BSEC
    • One of the Center's most popular classes, students will learn an organic, ecological approach to caring for honeybees without chemicals or treatments.
    Co-sponsored with backyardhive.com

  • Establishing Neighborhood Food Projects with Kipp Nash of Community Roots Neighborhood CSA
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    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.

  • Basics of BioDynamic Preps with Jamie Furstoss of Earthstar Farm
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    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.

  • Seed Saving for BioDiversity with Rich Pecoraro of Abbondanza Farms and Seed Co.

  • Succession Planting for Continuous Veggies with Rich Pecoraro of Abbondanza Farm

    For more information or if you have difficulty registering, please send e-mail to kelly (at) bouldersustainability dot org

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