Learn to grow food and build soil in any climate from the man growing bananas in the Rocky Mountains! Come get your hands dirty in our 30 year old, one-acre outdoor and indoor edible forest garden! Day one of these workshops will cover the basics of forest gardening including: Designing and maintaining a forest garden Developing the forest from groundcover to vines to overstory Building soil with vermiculture Integrating plant/animal guilds to promote biodiversity and fill essential ecological functions Successful companion planting for the high Rockies This is a unique opportunity to spend time in the 30-year-old, high-altitude forest garden at CRMPI. Grow tropical bananas in the Rockies? That’s right. Day two of these workshops will teach you how to grow your own food year-round, even tropical fruits, using Climate Battery technology. Learn the intricacies and design of greenhouse growing with an emphasis on perennial poly-culture and making the most of your space. Discover how you can stack functions to make your greenhouse more effective and efficient. Or, if you don’t have a greenhouse, just come to see how this low-tech greenhouse design produces papayas, bananas and other tropical goodies at 7,000+ feet above sea level.