Learn to dehydrate your bounty of produce with natural and renewable Solar Power! Come and learn how easy it is to use the sun to preserve your extra food. The great Arizona sunshine can be used to save your harvest with solar food dehydration, and…
Location: SE Corner of N 3rd Ave and W Palo Verde Drive (backyard); 1 block South of Bethany Home
Requested Donation: $10 (cash or check to the PPG; a 501C3 non-profit)
Each year we offer a fruit tree pruning class at the Urban Farm's other orchar…
Build a Permanent Herb Bed with Maya Dailey
HANDS-ON, Limit 20 people
Suggested Donation $20
Everything you wanted to know about creating a garden bed especially for growing vibrant, flavorful herb in the desert Southwest. Maya will share her secre…
First Saturday Tour - Coronado Treehouse with Doreen
Requested Donation: $5 (Cash or check only)
Parking is available at Coronado Park across the street from the house.
This is not an Open House. Because of the huge interest in this tour, there will…
Do you want to garden but not sure about digging up your yard? Or do not have a yard? Then come and learn how to have all the tomatoes you want in two square feet of space! You will learn the finer points of how to select a tomato to raise in a pot…
Joan Baron is a local artists that works with mosaics, ceramics and earth plasters. She has created an oasis in her yard that includes an herb spiral, rammed earth walls, a cistern, permeable driveway, and basic water harvesting techniques. Joan's y…
Building a Biodynamic Compost Heap with Maya Dailey
HANDS-ON, Limit 15 people
Suggested donation $20
Come down to the Farm at South Mountain and assist Maya in building a biodynamic compost heap. Biodynamics seeks to capture the "life force" in pla…
Rachel will show you how easy it is to keep chickens in your backyard.
Chickens in Phoenix? You bet! Chickens make great pets, efficient bug and weed eaters and excellent soil tillers, not to mention that they provide us with wonderful fresh eggs!…
This class will include a lecture and hands-on demo on the basics of successful kitchen worm-composting. Topics covered include basics on the biology of worms, building a worm bin, acquiring worms locally, keeping the worms healthy, avoiding unwante…