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April 2019
Regenerative Soil Ecology
for Home and Community Gardens with Wildcat This one day workshop on regenerative gardening takes a living systems approach to soil and will introduce people to simple techniques for building living, fertile, resilient soil through increasing soil biodiversity…
Find out more »Practicing Reindigenization
Join us for the final event in our Social Permaculture Workshop Series. In the other workshops we identified some of the destructive influences embedded in our culture that lead to a feeling of disconnect and harm to our…
Find out more »May 2019
Plant Sale
30 different varieties of seedlings for your garden! Thanks for supporting sustainability education and local food production.
Find out more »June 2019
Native Plant Hike
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…
Find out more »Developing a Permaculture Practice
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…
Find out more »Water Systems Walk-Through
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…
Find out more »October 2019
Backyard Compost Workshop
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…
Find out more »February 2020
Chaos Cafe
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.…
Find out more »August 2021
Greenhouse Design Workshop
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 can finally keep out the ground squirrels and other critters that…
Find out more »Food Preservation Workshop
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.…
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