Backyard Mini-Farm Step-by-step Series

Workshop #1

Join us for the first workshop of our exclusive backyard mini-farm series - a complete step-by-step journey creating a new Grow Biointensive urban mini-farm in Kimberley BC.

Workshop #1 covers the following topics:

• Garden design (placement, orientation, sun-mapping, bed mapping)

• Tools of the trade

• Soil testing - importance, methodology and demonstration

• Bed setup (staking and string guides) demonstration

• Single digging demonstration

• Introduction to sustainable diet design (60-30-10)

• Seed starting/flatting demonstration

Walk-ins welcome, and if possible please register ahead of the workshop so we can better accommodate all participants.

All ages and experience levels welcome!

All workshops and courses are by donation.

Suggested donation: $25/person $50/family

Backyard Mini-Farm Step-by-step Series - Workshop #2

Join us for the second workshop of our exclusive backyard mini-farm series - a complete step-by-step journey creating a new Grow Biointensive urban mini-farm in Kimberley BC.

During this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to get their hands and feet dirty practicing double-digging, flatting and transplanting - so please bring digging footwear and gloves if you like!

Workshop #2 covers the following topics:

• Double digging demonstration and skill building opportunity

• Bed shaping demonstration

• Soil test results discussion

• Organic soil amendment application demonstration

• Seed starting/flatting continued.

• Transplanting demonstration and skill building opportunity

• Watering technique and demonstration

All ages and experience levels welcome!

Workshops are by donation.

Suggested donation: $25/person $50/family

We appreciate your support!

Backyard Mini-Farm Step-by-step Series - Workshop #3

Join us for the 3rd workshop of our exclusive backyard mini-farm series - a complete step-by-step journey creating a new Grow Biointensive urban mini-farm in Kimberley BC.

During this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to get their hands and feet dirty practicing double-digging, flatting and transplanting - so please bring digging footwear and gloves if you like!

Workshop #3 will revisit previous skill building subjects, and offer more conversational topics with time for questions. Specific topics include:

• A more in-depth look into the 8 sustainability principles of Grow Biointensive:

  • Deep soil preparation - the how and the why

  • Composting - the importance of recycling nutrients and growing organic matter

  • Intensive planting - how to increase yield 4x and eliminate the need to weed

  • Carbon farming - sustainability and how we feed the soil

  • Calorie farming - how to effectively feed ourselves

  • Companion planting - 3 ways to work with nature

  • Open-pollinated seeds - the importance of genetic diversity

  • and Biodiversity - how all previous principles tie together

• Watering technique demonstration

• Double digging demonstration with skill building opportunity

• Seed starting/flatting with skill building opportunity

• Transplanting demonstration with skill building opportunity

All ages and experience levels welcome!

Workshops are by donation.

Suggested donation: $25/person $50/family

We appreciate your support!

Backyard Mini-Farm Step-by-step Series - Mid-Season Tour

Join us for the mid-summer tour of our exclusive backyard mini-farm series - a complete step-by-step journey creating a new Grow Biointensive urban mini-farm in Kimberley BC.

This tour is a great opportunity to see the new garden at the peak of the season - every bed planted, grain tall and setting seed, and flowers beginning to bloom! It’s a great opportunity to build off of the precious 3 workshops and to better understand the various stages of growth throughout the seasons.

This will be a open-house event, so come and go at your leisure during open hours and please invite a friend or two!

We will offer a guided 8 principles tour when we open at 10:00am, and be available for questions all day!

Free coffee/snacks will be provided, a kid friendly scavenger hunt will be available, and friendly faces ready to answer all of your questions!

All ages and experience levels welcome!

Workshops are by donation.

Suggested donation: $25/person $50/family

We appreciate your support!

Backyard Mini-Farm Step-by-step Series - Workshop #4

Join us for the 4th workshop of our exclusive backyard mini-farm series - a complete step-by-step journey creating a new Grow Biointensive urban mini-farm in Kimberley BC.

During this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to get their hands dirty practicing seed processing and compost building - so please bring appropriate footwear and gloves if you like!

Workshop #4 will cover the following topics :

• How to build a Grow Biointensive compost pile demonstration, with an opportunity to help build a compost pile

• Harvesting grain and other seed crops by hand with a sickle

• Threshing and winnowing seed by hand demonstration, with an opportunity to participate

• A conversation about open-pollinated seeds, genetic diversity, biodiversity, and the importance of saving our own seed for food localization

All ages and experience levels welcome!

Workshops are by donation.

Suggested donation: $25/person $50/family

We appreciate your support!

Backyard Mini-Farm - Fall Harvest Threshing Party and Potluck Event

Join us for our final event of the 2025 season - a seed processing work party and harvest potluck!

This is a social event that will start with a garden tour, followed by threshing and finishing with a potluck - so please join us, share a laugh, and stay as long or as little as you like!

Participate in the threshing party by either bringing your own harvested grains and seeds, or help out with someone else’s. It’s a “many hands light work” event to help each other to separate the chaff from the wheat…literally, and have a fun time doing it!

After the work-party, we’ll sit down to a potluck dinner and share our gardening stories, our successes and failures, and connect with the growing community.

Free coffee/snacks will be provided, a kid friendly scavenger hunt will be available, and friendly faces ready to answer all of your questions!

• 12:00pm - Garden tour and Q&A

• 1:00pm - Threshing and winnowing party

• 4:00pm - Potluck

  The date and time for this event may change and will be weather dependant. Registered participants will receive notification if needed!

All ages and experience levels welcome!