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SUMMARY:Cultivating Oyster Mushrooms at home with Micheal Butts: May 15th\, 2025
DESCRIPTION:Micheal will spend a day introducing you to growing Oyster Mushrooms on a small scale with simple processes you can do at home\, and you’ll go home with your first little “garden” of mushrooms.   In the morning we will start by introducing you to the wonderful world of fungi\, discuss growing mediums well suited for Oyster varieties and the conditions that help them to thrive to abundant fruiting. We will discuss where we can find all the commonly available resources. I will have step by step instructions for you on preparing the growing medium and how to create the favorable conditions for fruiting as the mycelium grows.  This class was really popular last year and it was wonderful hearing about the successes of the students growing mushrooms! \nAfter a wonderful farm-to-table lunch at the farm we will spend a couple hours having fun building our own mushroom grow bags with materials I will have ready to assemble.   Folks will go home with some of their own innoculated mushroom bags. \n\n \n\n\n\n\nMicheal Butts is an urban homesteader in downtown Loveland\, Colorado packing his quarter acre estate with a flock of yard birds\, several colonies of honey bees\, garden beds\, a wood fired coffee roastery\, beer and mead brewing equipment and a firewood shed. He is the production manager for Crown Mushrooms farm in nearby Berthoud.
URL:https://elkstonefarm.com/event/cultivating-oyster-mushrooms-at-home-with-micheal-butts-may-15th/
LOCATION:Elkstone Farm\, 40345 Virtus Way\, Steamboat Springs\, CO\, 80487\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Apothecary Program,Permaculture
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ORGANIZER;CN="Marco Lam":MAILTO:marco@elkstonefarm.com
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SUMMARY:Watershed Restoration Workshop with Ben Murray: July 13-14\, 2024
DESCRIPTION:We are really excited to host Ben Murray\, a skilled permaculture teacher who specialized in watershed restoration here at Elkstone! \nHave you ever wondered how you can make a real palpable difference in the fight against climate change? The answer might be closer than you think; flowing through our streams and rivers. Pool and riffle restoration is a powerful way for individuals to stabilize the climate\, and revitalize local ecosystems. \nWhy Pool and Riffle Restoration Matters \nWater is the foundation of all life\, and by restoring these natural water systems\, we can ensure that our ecosystems can regain and remain the vibrant and life-sustaining keystones to abundance for all. \nHealthy Streams naturally form sequences of pools (deep\, slow-moving water) and riffles (shallow\, fast-moving water). Unfortunately\, it is hard to find undisturbed and truly healthy formations that are crucial for healthy aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. By restoring pools and riffles\, we can  recharge ground water and turn ephemeral flows into forgotten babbling streams and brooks.  We can bring  life back to areas that only see water seasonally and by improving water retention we can reduce floods and droughts\, creating a more stable thermal environment for aquatic and terrestrial life.  \nThrough sediment and soil capture\, the subsequent abundance that sprouts from hydrated soils stores far more elemental and living carbon\, helping to mitigating climate change. \nRevive Seasonal Streams\, improve water quality\, increase biodiversity and Abundance\, and Capture Carbon \nYou Can Lead the Flow! \nYou can make a difference with simple\, impactful actions: \nLearn with Us at Elkstone Farm: Join us at Elkstone Farm to learn hands-on techniques for pool and riffle restoration. Empower yourself with the knowledge and skills to take effective action in your community. \nLearn and Share\, Get Involved Locally\, Volunteer\, Advocate\, and Adopt a watershed!  \nBy getting involved\, you’re contributing to a global effort to combat climate change and protect life. Each restored pool sends ripples of palpable positive change\, proving that individual actions can make a significant difference. \nJoin us for an immersive three-day course that will revolutionize your approach to watershed restoration! Our focus is on restoring the upper ephemeral flow\, pool and riffle systems\, using hands-on techniques that will have you feeling like a restoration expert in no time.    \nOur course will give you practical\, hands-on activities that will teach you the skills you need to make a real difference in the health of our waterways. You'll learn how read water courses and implement restoration projects that restore natural flow patterns and promote the growth of healthy aquatic ecosystems. \nWe will guide you through every step of the process\, from site assessment and planning to planting and monitoring. You'll learn about the latest techniques and technologies for restoring stream channels\, creating aquatic habitat\, and stabilizing banks and slopes. \nBut this is no ordinary course!  We believe that restoration should be fun\, engaging\, and exciting\, and our program reflects that. You'll get to work in the field with other restoration enthusiasts\, enjoying the beauty of nature on Elkstone farm and learn practical skills that will last a lifetime. \nJoin us for an unforgettable three-day journey into the heart of watershed restoration. You'll come away feeling inspired\, empowered\, nourished \, and equipped to make a real difference in the health of our rivers and streams. Sign up today and be a part of the restoration revolution! \n  \n \nAbout Ben: \nBen Murray is passionately committed to guiding radical restoration of our parched lands.  Through restoring damaged and degraded natural systems from the top down and the seed up so that we may live in a truly  resilient vibrant and nourishing world.  He feels that right relationship to healthy ecosystems is the foundation of physical mental and spiritual wellbeing.  \nHis path to watershed restoration started at a very earl age playing with streams in the forests of England awakening a profound relationship to water\, later coming upon the work of Victor Schauberger setting him on a deeper path of understanding the circulatory system of our earth the streams and rivers. He has done watershed restoration in Brazil\, Ecuador\, Canada and the USA.   He had the privilege to do a seed to seed apprenticeship in the permaculture market gardens of the oldest agroforestry operation in North America\, Windhorse Farm.   At 175 years of continual management\, Windhorse Farm has more standing timber than the day they started.   The deep feeling of old growth forest coexists while being actively managed as a woodlot.  This gave him the visceral knowing that another way is possible. It was on Windhorse  that he first actively started restoring waterways and a deep love of water turned into the seeds of a new skill. He was lit up by this work more than anything in how humbling and awe inspiring  it is to to participate with nature in such a way that streams that were once dr\, return to flowing and all the subsequent life that burgeons forth from such simple actions. It has showed him that water is the fulcrum point of all ecological design and restoration\, and our deepest teacher about life.   \nOver the years\, his hands-on experience of success and failure and happy accidents in restoration have illuminated a simple yet profound path to watershed restoration.  He has taught and been taught by the rural people in Ecuador  and trained Peace Corps volunteers where he co-owns a regenerative cacao farm.  In Brazil\, he built a permaculture center around empowering locals to thrive in community cooperation\, championing their local skills\, ancestral natural building skills and helping them to restore their ancestral water courses and lands. He has consulted and worked in Mexico and the Caribbean on regenerative farm design.  He currently resides in rural Boulder\, Colorado\, where he lives with his wife and 6 year old twins\, developing a a homestead at the foot of the mountains. 
URL:https://elkstonefarm.com/event/watershed-restoration-workshop-with-ben-murray-july-13-2024/
LOCATION:Elkstone Farm\, 40345 Virtus Way\, Steamboat Springs\, CO\, 80487\, United States
CATEGORIES:Permaculture
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SUMMARY:A Masterclass in Forest Garden Greenhouses with Jerome Osentowski: June 29th\, 2024
DESCRIPTION:Jerome is one of North America's most accomplished permaculture designers and he will teach us how to create forest gardens in both greenhouses and outdoors that can transform both our homes and our lives.   He has the amazing ability to create greenhouses on a frugal budget and also the vision to see what is possible on a largerscale.   He is both practical about growing and has decades of experience growing vegetables and fruits at altitude.\n\nHe will provide in-depth information on construction of high altitude greenhouses\, soil building techniques\, disease and pest control\,  the secrets of  companion planting and the use of microclimates within the greenhouse and around it.   We will use the Elkstone Farm greenhouse which utilizes a revolutionary energy-cycling technology known as a “climate battery” which allows use us to effectively utilize both passive and active solar heat storage to create tropical greenhouse conditions even high up in the Colorado mountains.\n\nThis is a chance to learn from senior permaculture teachers on a well established permaculture site.  You’ll come away with a larger range of possibilities of what is possible to grow in Colorado and skills to move your life and your land into a more regenerative future!   Join us in growing a more sustainable food culture for the Yampa Valley!\n\nAs an added bonus\,  our very own Chef Russell Goodman will prepare a sumptuous farm-to-table lunch for us so that we are well nourished as we learn!\n\nJerome recommends you purchase and read his book before the workshop\, you can pick up a copy here:\n\nhttps://www.chelseagreen.com/product/the-forest-garden-greenhouse/
URL:https://elkstonefarm.com/event/a-masterclass-in-forest-garden-greenhouses-with-jerome-osentowski-june29th-2024/
LOCATION:Elkstone Farm\, 40345 Virtus Way\, Steamboat Springs\, CO\, 80487\, United States
CATEGORIES:Permaculture
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SUMMARY:Cultivating Oyster Mushrooms at home with Micheal Butts: May 29th
DESCRIPTION:Micheal will spend a day introducing you to growing Oyster Mushrooms on a small scale with simple processes you can do at home\, and you’ll go home with your first little “garden” of mushrooms.   In the morning we will start by introducing you to the wonderful world of fungi\, discuss growing mediums well suited for Oyster varieties and the conditions that help them to thrive to abundant fruiting. We will discuss where we can find all the commonly available resources. I will have step by step instructions for you on preparing the growing medium and how to create the favorable conditions for fruiting as the mycelium grows. \nAfter a wonderful farm-to-table lunch at the farm we will spend a couple hours having fun building our own mushroom grow bags with materials I will have ready to assemble.   Folks will go home with some of their own innoculated mushroom bags. \n\n \n\n\n\n\nMicheal Butts is an urban homesteader in downtown Loveland\, Colorado packing his quarter acre estate with a flock of yard birds\, several colonies of honey bees\, garden beds\, a wood fired coffee roastery\, beer and mead brewing equipment and a firewood shed. He is the production manager for Crown Mushrooms farm in nearby Berthoud.
URL:https://elkstonefarm.com/event/cultivating-oyster-mushrooms-at-home-with-michael-butts-may-29th/
LOCATION:Elkstone Farm\, 40345 Virtus Way\, Steamboat Springs\, CO\, 80487\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Apothecary Program,Permaculture
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ORGANIZER;CN="Marco Lam":MAILTO:marco@elkstonefarm.com
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