May 8 & August 14
(Offered on Two Separate Dates)
EDIBLE LANDSCAPING WORKSHOP
Instructor:
Jerome Osentowski
June 19
MEDICINAL & CULINARY HERBS
Instructors:
Mary O’Brien
Jerome Osentowski
Cost: $50 – Includes course materials & lunch
9:00 - 4:00 with a one-hour lunch break
Mary O’Brien and Jerome will give a workshop on medicinal & culinary herbs. Mary has been studying and practicing herbal medicine since 1987, completing the Chartered Herbalist program with Dominion Herbal College and studying with various teachers, including Rosemary Gladstar, Brigette Mars, Michael Moore, and Stephen Buhner. She has taught herbal medicine and medicine making in Steamboat Springs and Edwards, Colorado. For 16 years she lived in Steamboat Springs and worked as an EMT, massage therapist and energy worker while teaching, leading edible and medicinal herb walks, building and maintaining a medicinal garden for the local botanical park and making herbal products for local commerce. Her emphasis is on using native and locally grown plants for medicine rather then bringing in plants from other bioregions. After recently returning from the Peace Corps in Kenya, she is now expanding her learning and practice into Permaculture design.
Please email jerome@crmpi.org to reserve a space. No deposit required.
Camping is available for overnight stays.
Cost: $75 – Includes course materials & lunch
9:00 - 4:30 with a one-hour lunch break
This workshop will introduce the concept of edible landscaping and its unique application in the unpredictable Rocky Mountain climate. Edible landscapes mimic the natural environment with a diverse, multi-story polyculture systems that can produce fruit, flowers, vegetables, and medicinal herbs in a very limited amount of space. In time, we create a system producing high food yields and requiring very little maintenance.
Please email jerome@crmpi.org to reserve a space. No deposit required.
Camping is available for overnight stays.
We will be offering several 1- and 2-day intensive workshops in 2010 that are packed with valuable information about Edible Landscaping, Forest Gardening, Greenhouse Design, and Herbs. Please RSVP by email to save your space at the workshops.
April 17 & 18
PRUNING & GRAFTING WORKSHOP
Instructors:
Jerome Osentowski
Michael Thompson
Cost: $125 – Includes course materials & lunch; $75 for one day (Pruning 4/17, Grafting 4/18)
This two-day workshop is for everyone interested in learning the skills of propagating and growing their own fruit trees. Practice pruning and grafting techniques with experts from the Rocky Mountain Region in this intensive workshop. Learning to correctly prune your trees will allow higher yields from healthier trees, and grafting techniques will allow you to increase the hardiness, variety, and overall yields. No experience needed.
Please email jerome@crmpi.org to reserve a space. No deposit required.
Camping is available for overnight stays.
May 22
SOLAR GREENHOUSE DESIGN & MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP
Instructor:
Jerome Osentowski
Cost: $75 – Includes course materials & lunch
9:00 - 4:30 with a one-hour lunch break
All greenhouses collect solar energy. Solar greenhouses are designed not only to collect solar energy during sunny days but also to store heat for use at night or during periods when it is cloudy. They can either be standalone or attached to houses or barns. This workshop will cover site selection, design and construction principles along with solar heating and cooling systems techniques. Participants will tour several greenhouses on the CRMPI site and discuss the unique solar strategies that they embody.
Please email jerome@crmpi.org to reserve a space. No deposit required.
Camping is available for overnight stays.
