Jason Wrich Storytelling Session: Ranching for Family, Community and the Future
Join Colorado Farm and Food Alliance for a fireside storytelling session with Jason Wrich. He will share his experience of rotational grazing, community leases, and building a legacy ranch for his family and community. Come hear his story and share your own with hot beverages and snacks around our new sunken kiva firepit.
Suggested donation $20; all are welcome. Homemade organic refreshments included
41679 O ROAD PAONIA, CO 81428
Community Meal, Film Screening and Conversation - Legacy: Stories of Healing and Hope
With our partners The Learning Council and Valley Organic Growers Association, we will be hosting a screening of "Legacy: Stories of Healing and Hope."
Join us February 24 at the Hearth in Paonia for food, camaraderie, and a meaningful discussion about mental health in our communities.
RSVP for a light meal at 5:30 pm (to help us plan) followed immediately by the film and community conversation. (Drop-ins welcome too!)
Stephanie Matlock Storytelling Session: Women and Legacy Farms
Join Colorado Farm and Food Alliance for a fireside storytelling session with Stephanie Matlock. She will share her experience of inheriting a farm and building a diverse, woman-owned operation including onions, leeks, garlic, fruit and all sorts of other vegetables. Come hear her story and share your own with hot beverages and snacks around our new sunken kiva firepit.
Suggested donation of $20; all are welcome. Homemade organic refreshments are included
41679 O ROAD PAONIA, CO 81428
Doug Beall Storytelling Session: Mycelium Love and a Beaver Tale or Two
Join Colorado Farm and Food Alliance for a fireside storytelling session with Doug Beall. He will share his experience of river restoration efforts and learning to co-exist with beaver on his ranch. Come hear his story and share your own with hot beverages and snacks around our new sunken kiva firepit.
Suggested donation of $20; all are welcome. Homemade organic refreshments are included
41679 O ROAD PAONIA, CO 81428
Carter Keegan Storytelling Session: Muscovy Musings
Join Colorado Farm and Food Alliance for a fireside storytelling session with Carter Keegan. He will share his experience working with goats, chickens, and ducks. Come hear his story and share your own with hot beverages and snacks around our new sunken kiva firepit.
Suggested donation of $20; all are welcome. Homemade organic refreshments are included
41679 O ROAD PAONIA, CO 81428
Water Management Strategies Workshop
FACILITATED BY MARTA SANCHEZ & TRACE AXTELL of INTEGRAL PATHWAYS
Location: 122 GRAND AVENUE
A discussion featuring design and implementation of water harvesting earthworks including swales, terraces, ponds, infiltration basins, trees and more. Learn how to approach water management with an ecological and hydrological perspective within drylands and integrated irrigation contexts.
Fall Tonics and Herbal Medicine Cultivation Workshop
FACILITATED BY ALICIA MICHELSON-THE LEARNING COUNCIL
Location: 41679 0 ROAD
We will explore deep roots and remedies for winter wellness with hands-on activities and simple ways to make effective and place-based medicine.
Regenerative Agriculture Farm Dinner
Join us for a farm-to-table gourmet dinner, curated by the Forage Sisters and paired with Qutori wines. This five course meal will be masterfully prepared with quality local ingredients gathered at the peak of harvest season. This dinner will sell-out. Don’t miss it!
Beavers On Farms Tour
Join us for a tour of two working farms that have developed strategies to work in partnership with beavers to improve late season water outcomes. Both farms have installed low tech solutions that mitigate damage imposed on culverts and irrigation systems and also benefit from water from beaver ponds that are available after irrigation rights are exhausted for the season.
Speed Weeding and Pizza Party
Come out to Arbol Farm, located at 41679 O Road, to check out Mariposa Ascendente, the new Regenerative Agriculture demonstration garden and classroom. Come be a part of the magic and help weed the gardens in a speed weeding event where you will get to know a lot of new people in the community and then enjoy a pizza party! Locally sourced ingredients from North Fork farms and cooked in a garlic bulb pizza oven here on the farm. Learn about regenerative agriculture principles like cover crops, pollinator gardens, swales, companion planting, integrating animals into the garden and more first hand in the butterfly shaped garden space.
Speed Weeding and Pizza Party
Come out to Arbol Farm, located at 41679 O Road, to check out Mariposa Ascendente, the new Regenerative Agriculture demonstration garden and classroom. Come be a part of the magic and help weed the gardens in a speed weeding event where you will get to know a lot of new people in the community and then enjoy a pizza party! Locally sourced ingredients from North Fork farms and cooked in a garlic bulb pizza oven here on the farm. Learn about regenerative agriculture principles like cover crops, pollinator gardens, swales, companion planting, integrating animals into the garden and more first hand in the butterfly shaped garden space.
Beaver, Brews & Community Brainstorm
How The North Fork Valley Was Watered - And Can Be Again!
Appetizers are on us when you help us put together next steps and strategies for boosting watershed health and river resilience including community education, art and activism, restoration projects and more.
July 8, 4:30 - 6:30 PM at Chrysalis, 201 1st St Paonia CO.
Please RSVP at colofarmfood.org/rsvp
Speed Weeding and Pizza Party
Come out to Arbol Farm, located at 41679 O Road, to check out Mariposa Ascendente, the new Regenerative Agriculture demonstration garden and classroom. Come be a part of the magic and help weed the gardens in a speed weeding event where you will get to know a lot of new people in the community and then enjoy a pizza party! Locally sourced ingredients from North Fork farms and cooked in a garlic bulb pizza oven here on the farm. Learn about regenerative agriculture principles like cover crops, pollinator gardens, swales, companion planting, integrating animals into the garden and more first hand in the butterfly shaped garden space.
Riverfest and Community Fair
This annual event features local music, food and vendors hosted by The Colorado Farm and Food Alliance, Western Slope Conservation Center, and The Learning Council.
Alley Cropping with Elizabeth Agee
Elizabeth, Just Good Food Manager at CO Farm & Food Alliance, is also a permaculturist and small-farm consultant. Join us for alley cropping workshop followed by a hands-on planting day.
Alley Cropping is a regenerative practice that involves planting trees and shrubs in rows between other crops. This practice has a myriad of benefits ecologically and to the farmer including incorporating more crops into a small space, cutting out the need to clear land, increased water retention and maintained soil fertility. $20 suggested donation.
Native Pollinators in the Market Garden
Join us for a workshop with Paige Payne celebrating the beauty of Colorado native plants and the abundance of local pollinators. We will also cover how to create a lively pollinator-paradise garden that provides food and habitat to butterflies, bees, hummingbirds, moths, and more!
Cover Crops with Jon Orlando & Elizabeth Agee
Jon and Candice Orlando have been farming and experimenting with regenerative agriculture for 14 years. Join them and Elizabeth Agee from Colorado Farm and Food Alliance for a workshop on utilizing cover crops, silage tarps, and other practices to work towards a no or low till growing system.
Building Soil and Families: Holistic Grazing
Jason of Wrich Ranches will walk us through the purpose of regenerative ranching focusing on soil health. Wrich holistically manages many acres with a combination of land leases and high country grazing permits. He will discuss how healthy practices not only improve environmental conditions, but help to build a healthy and happy community.
Natural Farming: Amendments with Local Ingredients
Learn living soil techniques and theory from Miles Filippelli – a lifelong grower, farmer, producer of the wildly popular Fermented Plant Extracts and long time collaborator with BuildaSoil.
Rivershed: A Weekend of Awareness and Action for Healthy Lands and Watersheds
This weekend of activities will explore themes around our river and water in the west. Through conversations, film, discussion and hands-on activities, we will touch on watershed restoration, beaver and riparian life, the risks of persistent drought and building greater system resilience, and the role of healthy lands in the security of our western river systems.
Equity Garden Farm Dinner
Join us for the 2nd Annual Equity Garden Farm Dinner at the Historic Midway Schoolhouse!
This is a limited seating event and tickets will sell out- secure your spot now by clicking here
North Fork Community Fair & Solutions Expo
Join the Colorado Farm & Food Alliance and The Learning Council for an inspiring, educational day, connecting attendees with local businesses and organizations focused on local and sustainable solutions to our lives, lifestyles and priorities here in western Colorado.
This is a free, family-friendly event for the public. We hope to see you there!
Fire Mitigation and Regenerative Agriculture
Mason Babcock from Alexa Gray Trees and the Paonia Fire Department hosts this workshop to show us a harmonious way to create defensible space. We will discuss all aspects of fire mitigation with a focus on tree care and regenerative agriculture and the roles they can play in creating a defensible space.
Planting for Native Pollinators Workshop
Elizabeth Agee manages the Just Good Food project at the Colorado Farm and Food Alliance and is a permaculture consultant at Backyard Farmstead. Colorado has a large population of native and migratory pollinators, including bees, moths, butterflies, hummingbirds, wasps, beetles, flies and birds that are supported and fed by native plants. In this workshop, we will explore different varieties of flowers, herbs and perennials that support our local pollinators and how we can incorporate them into our back and front yards, farm plans and pastures.
Perennial Cut Flower Design Workshop
In this workshop, Carole Sikora will teach basic beginner flower-growing techniques, including ground care and soil science for our region, layouts and garden planning, choosing perennials and annuals appropriate for our climate, and how and when to start flowers.
Equity Garden Farm Dinner
Join the Colorado Farm & Food Alliance for a locally-sourced farm to table dinner to benefit our Equity Garden Incubation Plot!
Barrel Compost Workshop with Pat Frazier
Barrel Compost was originally formulated by Maria Thun in Germany as a further indication of the biodynamic preparations. Following the tragedy of Chernobyl, it was discovered that remediation of nuclear radiation effects could be enhanced by the use of a concentrated homeopathic preparation using potentized cow manure, egg shells, basalt rock and the biodynamic compost preparations. The preparation is in wide use on many US biodynamic farms today and has been applied consistently to the nuclear accident site and our west coast, resulting from the tragic tsunami and reactor melt in Japan. Learn to make this preparation in this workshop and take the skills to your own farm or garden to enhance and enliven your on farm fertility.
We will make and bury the barrel compost preparation on the incubator site in an amount that has the capacity to cover several hundred acres in our community. This fall Rhythmic activity and burial will greet spring on the incubator farm and our surrounding community
