What we’re about
This is a place to meet other locals interested in Urban Homesteading and simple living skills like gardening, food preservation, caring for livestock, wilderness survival, alternative energy, edible landscaping, permaculture, container gardening . . . sustainability and resilience. These skills enable you to live harmoniously with nature's processes thereby improving the habitat for all living things around you.
Upcoming events (2)
See all- *DATE CHANGE!* WINTER Four Seasons Gardening Workshop @ LSILiving Systems Institute, Golden, CO
***Note the date change! This workshop has been moved to the same time, Saturday NOV. 16th!***
The Four Seasons Gardening workshops educate people about how they can participate year-round in habitat-building, soil-building, carbon-storing & food-producing gardening right in their own yards.
The WINTER workshop covers these skills and knowledges for the cold season:
- build a deep mulch bed
- design ideas and methods
- resource gathering and management
- some plant (dried) identification
Workshops are led by Zanna Ceesay, head gardener at Living Systems Institute (LSI) in Golden, CO. Contact Zanna for any questions!
Workshops at LSI are always free, and open to all people. Please join us and bring a friend. For those who can give, donations are also gratefully welcomed to help us continue offering accessible education that supports people and planet. Make a donation at livingsystemsinst.org/support-lsi.
- *DATE CHANGE* Chicken Culling & Processing WorkshopLiving Systems Institute, Golden, CO$20.00
**Note the date change! This workshop moved to the same time, Saturday NOV. 16th!***
Come learn the hands-on homesteading art of processing chickens for meat. This is not everyone’s favorite activity, yet it’s an essential aspect of participating in homesteading life and the living systems that sustain us.
Participants will practice humane homestead methods that are sanitary and efficient for taking the birds all the way through to being ready to eat. We will also touch on how to respectfully and ritually harvest the animals whose lives are so much a part of our own.
$20 suggested donation (none turned away) and you get to take a bird home at the end. Please bring cash, or pay using PayPal (includes credit/debit payment options).
This workshop will last 1-2 hours depending on how efficient we are with the process, and how much time is needed for questions. Limited to 8 individuals or households (based on number of birds we have available).
Note: The Winter Four Seasons Gardening workshop immediately precedes this event. Refreshments will be served around 2pm for folks staying for both workshops. Feel free to arrive anytime between 2 and 2:30pm to get settled in for the chicken workshop.
