Do you live in an urban area? Are you worried about the "what if's" that could potentially stop civilization for a while? Do you know how to get ready to survive these pauses? Well, Colorado finally has an outlet for this kind of educational material - the Colorado Urban Tactical Survival Group. We meet in Broomfield on the first Tuesday of the month to share experiences, educate each other, try out new products, and just plain socialize with like-minded people. don't worry "Doomsday Preppers" w …

Heirloom Gardens offers classes in cooking, backyard chicken and goat keeping, Neighborhood Supported Agriculture (NSA), and home gardening. We provide a supportive environment for learning, with a personal, hands-on approach to teaching. Attendees can expect an enjoyable class that will be flexible to meet their needs. If you're interested in attending a class, please click on the calendar link (to the left) for class times and descriptions. If you'd like to register for a class, you will n …

Urban Farming for Permies! We are a small NSA located in NW Denver. We thrive on healthy soil and providing a learning environment for others . We follow permaculture principles, organic growing practices and we love teaching our community how to dry, hull and prepare much of their own food. We grow flowers (both cut and edible), vegetables, summer fruits, grains and herbs and have both a neighborhood NSA and an NSA for businesses. We love to have volunteers come out to help us with many of our …

MISSION The Growing Project (TGP) is a volunteer-run 501(c)3 nonprofit that promotes the value of a strong, diverse, and just local food system to all residents of Northern Colorado through direct agricultural experiences, education, and advocacy. VISION We accomplish our mission through creating community gardens that increase the supply of fresh local produce, providing educational programs to build community knowledge, skills, nutrition, sustainable agriculture, permaculture, and self-suffic …

Live Local Wheat Ridge is a community group which embodies the concept that connection between community members, local businesses and the synergy of positive change is the strongest method to create the community we want to belong. LL WR strives to bring people to Wheat Ridge and engage those who are already here through Dines, a monthly restaurant tour, Active, activities such as a weekly run club, bike crawls and yoga, and Harvest, supporting urban agriculture and home gardening.

Quite Contrary Foodies developed out of a love for food and learning. With so many great opportunities for both, we really couldn’t think of a reason not to combine them. You’ll find lots of both and an intertwining of many things related to the why, where and how of food and education. Dive into our E3 philosophy of Education, Exploration and Ecosystem. We do classes about gardening, cooking and canning utilizing our E3 philosophy.

We are a group of folks in Colorado Springs who are interested in local food production, small scale renewable energy production, water conservation, sustainable economies, restoring the built environment while respecting historic architecture, and social justice and food equity for all community members. We have diverse talents and backgrounds, as well as a wide range of life experiences. We are excited to share all that we can, and to learn much more from other members of this growing communit …

This is a place to meet other locals interested in Urban Homesteading and simple living skills like food preservation, caring for livestock, wilderness survival, alternative energy, edible landscaping, permaculture, container gardening... The group is apolitical (no politics unless there is an issue-based discussion that affects urban homesteading, such as laws regulating the keeping of animals), non-denominational (we welcome all religions, including the non-religious), and all-inclusive (fro …

Calling all Colorado residents! - Do you love the idea of sustainable living? If you practice recycling, re-using, re-generating and reducing your impact on our planet have you considered building your own Earthship? Earthship Colorado is a group created to promote and educate people and families on sustainable, new building structures using Earthship Biotecture style building practices. Now more than ever is the time to spread sustainable lifestyle like out of control wildfire. Assisting and v …

Join us to meet other Denver urbanites who are passionate about living in Denver and raising their kids in an urban environment. Our focus is taking advantage of all of the amazing things that Denver has to offer kids and meeting other cool Denver moms & dads for fun, support, and, ideally, lasting friendships! We will have events during the week as well as night or weekend events that will be more family oriented. We'll be doing walks in the parks , garden, zoo and museum trips, meeting for …

Let's Walk About it! Mission: Energizing balance of work, play, and learning. Topic-Talk Walks (TTWalks) membership is FREE. Since 2008, co-organizer Fran Rew has encouraged members to volunteer to collaboratively post and host their favorite walking conversations in neighborhood urban parks in Colorado. Members choose the topic, schedule and park they most enjoy. You can learn more about us by visiting our domain site at: TopicTalkWalks.com Walks frequently include an event before, during or …

The beauty of sustainability is that it works better when we work together. Not only can we do more with our hands, but we do more with our heads. New and better ideas are spread more quickly. Experimentation and application has more benefit when supported by a group. It is time to launch a cooperative network to facilitate our growth into the 21st century, with all of its coming challenges. Designing and building is what makes us uniquely human. Done poorly we have nearly wiped ourselves off th …