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Backyard Farming Series



Bernalillo County Open Space in coordination with the Hubbell House Alliance is offering a series of FREE workshops that will focus on how to transform your backyard into a thriving urban oasis of food, medicine and wildlife habitat.



Six seasonally-based workshops are spread throughout the spring, summer and fall so that participants can transform their backyards this year. The series will highlight experts in their field to lead presentations and hands-on demonstrations. Each session will also feature a Local Food Forum where local food producers will present their goods, provide tasty snacks, and talk about their enterprise. The workshops are free, however space is limited and participants must RSVP in advance.



To RSVP, contact Valerie at vhermanson@bernco.gov   or 505-314-0398



All the workshops will be held at the Gutierrez-Hubbell House located at 6029 Isleta Blvd, 3 miles south of Rio Bravo Blvd. Registration starts at 9:30am and the sessions go from 10:00am-4:00pm.



March 20th, Design and Prepare a Backyard Farm

*         Designing Your Urban Homestead

*         Soil Preparation

*         Local Foods Lunch Forum

*         Water Harvesting

*         Garden Beds and Seed Starting



April 17th, Backyard Livestock

*         Livestock and the Urban Homestead

*         Top bar Beekeeping

*         Local Foods Lunch Forum

*         Urban Chickens

*         Goats, Llamas, Alpacas, Mini Jerseys, and Pigs



May 15th, Productive and Healthy Gardens

*         Productive Gardens: Planning, Plant Selection, Spacing, and Micro- Environments

*         Local Foods Lunch Forum

*         Healthy Gardens: Holistic Management of Herbs, Plants, Weeds and Pests



August 21st, Traditional Gardening

*         History of Food

*         Heirloom and Native Crops

*         Local Foods Lunch Forum

*         Traditional Farming Methods

*         Traditional Irrigation Methods



September 18th, Harvesting Food and Medicine

*         Food: Canning, Fermentation, Drying, and Storing

*         Local Foods Lunch Forum

*         Green Pharmacy: Preparing, Drying, Storing, and Harvesting Medicinal Plants



October 16th, Seed Saving and Winter Preparation

*         Seed Saving: Agricultural Heritage and Methods to Harvest and Store Seeds

*         Local Foods Lunch Forum

*         Winter Clean-up and Year-round Growing



*These workshop are organized with assistance from Sunstone Herbs, visit them at http://www.sunstoneherbs.com<http://www.sunstoneherbs.com>

*The Local Lunch Forum is organized through the South Valley Economic Development Center, visit them at http://www.svedc.org<http://www.svedc.org>



For more information, please visit http://www.bernco.gov/openspace<http://www.bernco.gov/openspace>




Colleen Langan
Open Space Coordinator
Bernalillo County
Parks and Recreation Department
(505) 314-0398
http://www.bernco.gov/openspace