High Performance Greenhouse Workshop: Building and Growing
Experiential Learning Workshop taught live at our farm in Paonia, CO. This workshop will teach you how to build a greenhouse customized for your needs.
Paonia, CO
Paonia, CO
Do you dream of making the grocery store optional and becoming food independent?
Lynn Gillespie has been a professional organic farmer and garden educator for the last 34 years and specializes in teaching people how to build customized plans for creating food independence
Greenhouse Workshop: Building and Growing
What type of equipment you will need to successfully operate your greenhouse? We will teach you what you need to know start to finish!
Here is what you will learn:
What size greenhouse is perfect for you
What type of greenhouse to choose
How to get someone else to pay for your greenhouse!
How to use supplemental low tunnels and cold frames
How to make the grocery store optional
The best soil to get the most production
How to layout the growing space for the highest production
What types of heating and cooling systems are best for your location
In addition, you will get:
To tour several local greenhouses and high tunnels
Create you a custom plan just for your greenhouse
Learn how to save $1000’s a year off of your grocery bill
One free 30 minute personal consultation to help you finalize your plans or to ask specific questions after you go home from the workshop
$100 discount on the Abundance Garden Course the official High Performance Garden system recommended to use inside of your greenhouse.
Also Included in the Workshop:
All Meals: Thursday Dinner – Sunday Lunch; 9 farm to table meals grown on the farm or locally. Prepared by Chef Mike of The Living Farm Cafe
High Performance Greenhouse Workbook
Designed especially for this workshop. You will be guided to create your own charts, graphs, and design ideas.
Personalized Greenhouse Plan
Creation of your very own personalized High Performance Greenhouse Plan designed with your production interests and local building codes.
Direct Experience
Time in the 5 greenhouses on the farm so you can get visual ideas and a feel sense of how greenhouses work.
Currently there is 9000 sq. ft of vegetable production in 5 greenhouses on the farm.
Guest Speaker: Marjory Wildcraft
The Grow Network’s founder, Marjory Wildcraft has been featured as an expert in sustainable living by National Geographic, and she is the host of the annual Home Grown Food Summit, which reaches hundreds of thousands of viewers every year.
Learn to Build your Own Greenhouse and Extend Your Growing Season
Tom and Lynn GiIllespie have been organic farmers for 34 years. Together they bring a unique and long time perspective of what is is like to grow and construct greenhouses for food production.
Friday
How to make the grocery store optional
How to grow and preserve enough food for your family to eat year round
Creating a custom growing plan for your greenhouse and family
Saturday
Figure out what type, size and layout of your greenhouse
Layout, orientation and size of your greenhouse
Heat, cooling, building materials, kits or custom build
foundations
Tour more greenhouses
Soils and beds
Pests and diseases
Pollination in greenhouses
Plant selection
Keeping a journal
Sunday
Putting the plan together
How to get someone else to pay for your greenhouse
Finishing the custom plan
Having the plan reviewed by builder ( Tom) and grower (Lynn)
We offer 34 Years of Gardening Experience
This will be a spectacular workshop filled with insight, knowledge, hands on learning, farm to table food, laughter and a good time for all.