Past Events

Spend a couple hours getting to know our local plants and enjoying the land during this beautiful wet Spring! This is a special time for appreciating all the wildflowers that adorn our land right now. We will discuss…

Effective change can start in a small and gentle way with the help of Permaculture's guiding principles. By exploring strategies like Optimizing the Edge and Making the Least Change for the Greatest Effect, we can work towards self…

Your living environment can be designed to make best use of our precious desert water. The way the infrastructure is set up can decide how much food can be grown and how much water is needed to live…

February 23: Internal Adaptation Registration is Required Create with us a community of sharing and dialogue. Chaos cafe acknowledges our unpredictable global climactic balance and the resulting precariousness of our local economies and ability to meet our needs.…

Learn how to preserve food at home! This course will cover a variety of food preservation methods so that you can make the most of Northern New Mexico's short growing season and eat locally grown food year round.…

Earth Journey Circle This event page is not public, but is shared with you as a special invitation. In trust of the sacred web of personal relations, I invite you to forward it to those who you feel…

We can grow our community resilience by turning kitchen scraps into fertile soil! Get the low-down on worm farms, hot composting and long-term low maintenance piles. We will discuss composting toilets and how to break down other unusual…

  Watch this video about last year's Greenhouse Design Workshop! https://youtu.be/xwocRcUsdzQ At Ampersand we have found that food production is easier in a greenhouse. It requires less water, the season extension means more food to harvest, and we…