DENVER URBAN HOMESTEADING

OUR YEAR-ROUND INDOOR FARMERS' MARKET IS OPEN EVERY SATURDAY FROM 9-2

Windor Dairy is now distributing raw milk here and selling eggs and grass-fed beef.

We now carry Baker Creek heirloom vegetable seeds

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John Beauparlant Rebel. Keeper of rogue chickens. Urban farmer. Expert weeder. Loquacious in almost any subject. Lover of human interaction and sharing things that are fun to me. Altruistic provider of free eggs to special friends.	Lori Tigner of Westfarm Goats brings 20 years of goat raising experience to this class. She currently has over 30 goats that are raised for milk, meat, fiber, pets and/or weed eaters. Lori makes cheese, yogurt and soap from the goat’s milk.
Sandi Wiese I own a small scale worm farm and am personally responsible for having recycled several tons of food and other organic waste. I am very familiar with all aspects of worms and worm growing from personal experience and research. I also graduated from the CSU Rocky Mountain Compost School (yep, there is such a thing!) and have composted and gardened since I was knee high to a grasshopper. I do not have formal education in any of these areas other than the CSU school; but since there is no place to go to learn worms…..What’s a girl to do but invent one? So I did. And that’s the whole poop.	Marc Donsky is the current president of the Colorado Mycological Society. He’s a Denver native and has been growing, collecting, and eating mushrooms for over 30 years. He is a senior instructor of Biochemistry at the University of Colorado Denver, where he has been teaching for 10 years. He has a Ph.D. in Comparative Biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley.
	Carl Wilson is horticulturist with Colorado State University Extension’s Denver office. Although his educational work with the public leads him to teach about many types of plants in the landscape, his first love is growing and preserving vegetables. He’s worked with small growers and home gardeners in climates as varied as his native Pennsylvania, tropical Jamaica, desert Arizona and for the last 25 years, Denver. Carl’s university degree work in horticulture at both Penn State and the University of Arizona emphasized vegetable growing. You can sample his advice and add your comments by checking his Front Range Food Gardener blog written for vegetable and fruit growers on Colorado’s Front Range.
Karl Hanzel is a man of many talents. He can build you an electric bicycle. He can help you design & retrofit your home with rooftop water collection, greywater recycling, and composting toilet systems...as well as all-around sustainability. He has a home near Boulder with all of these systems in action.	Judy Vanderbosch has been a florist for 35 years. She taught professional floral design for 25 years. She has been growing, crafting, and teaching about herbs for 20 years in California, Washington, and now Colorado. She’s a Master Gardener and was an art teacher in the artist in residence program at elementary schools in California and Washington. Duane Hill is an aerospace engineer in Boulder who, although he has been keeping bees for a short time has done so with such intensity and thoroughness that he is able to share his experiences with newbies and to help them learn and appreciate backyard beekeeping.

Barbara Masoner is a member of Grow Local and a Denver Master Gardener. Her first garden was a 4H club garden in 5th grade. She has successfully raised greens from December through April for the past 7 years.

MacKenzie Kampling is a raw food chef who has studied with Jennifer Cornbleet through the Living Light Institute in California and certified as a raw food chef instructor through Raw Gourmet International Institute in Chicago Illinois. MacKenzie, a life long lover of healthy and sustainable food is opening Rawsome Denver, a raw food box delivery service in December of this year.

Ross Karr teaches skiing and snowboarding to 4-7 year olds. He has worked in landscape design. Currently he is a licensed medical marijuana caregiver.

Bill Manci created a fisheries consulting business in 1982 after receiving his formal training in zoology and fisheries science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and after a six-year career in aquaculture research. Bill has
been a consultant since 1980 and has worked on many types of aquaculture and fish farming
projects throughout the U.S.A. and other nations. He also has published more than 300 technical and popular articles on the subjects
of aquaculture and fish farming, and served as an expert witness in aquaculture and fisheries-
related litigation.