Upcoming Events
Winter 2024-2025 Open Hours
Dates TBD
Come watch or participate in some of the more interesting or experimental operations at Sage Garden Ecovillas.
2024 Conversations for Change
Dates and specific topics are TBD. Topics are generally expected to include:
1) game and discuss nights, where we play a cooperative or socially restorative multiplayer game and discuss, and
2) watch and discuss nights, where we watch an informative or transformational documentary or short film and discuss.
Past Events
4/7
- Potted cuttings
- Built static, vented compost
4/21
- Harvested mulberries
- Made mulberry jam
5/5
- Canned mulberry jam and green beans
5/19
- Harvested and canned moringa "beans"
6/2
- Planted trees from cuttings
- Made herbal tea
6/16
- Harvested, threshed, and winnowed barley
- Planted trees from cuttings
7/7
- Planted trees from cuttings
7/21
- Reseeded a new forest patch
8/4
- Pruned and harvested rosemary and olive leaves
8/18
- Started semi-hardwood cuttings
- Potted berries that had rooted themselves
9/1
- Rebuilt the engine on the chipper/shredder
9/15
- Tended forest patches
- Started JADAM liquid fertilizer
10/6
- Set up solar powered cooler for cuttings
10/20
- Harvested and cleaned fig leaves
- Started semi-hardwood cuttings
- Pressed sugar cane
- Harvested olives
1/7
- Scarified mesquite seeds
- Harvested moringa leaves
- Started hardwood cuttings
1/21
- Harvested and brewed herbal tea
- Talked about harvesting and preparing food and medicine
2/4
- Pruned trees
- Fed trees
- Made and applied compost extract
2/18
- Moved trees and bushes
3/3
- Prepared new forest patch, with new irrigation zone and biochar
3/17
- Planted pecan trees
Nov 18, 2023 Moringa Leaf Harvest and Pollarding
Powdered moringa leaf is a prized superfood. Come help us harvest leaves, and take some home for your own use. Fall is the optimum time to pollard (a style of pruning) our moringa trees, which presents a timely opportunity to harvest leaves.
Nov 25-26, 2023 Moringa Leaf Harvest and Pollarding
Powdered moringa leaf is a prized superfood. Come help us harvest leaves, and take some home for your own use. Fall is the optimum time to pollard (a style of pruning) our moringa trees, which presents a timely opportunity to harvest leaves.
Nov 11/12, 2023 Olive Harvest and Curing Workshops
Documentary Discussion Nights
6/17 - Voices of Transition
7/1 - Mulch as a Drylands Strategy
7/15 - Ask U of A CALS and Coop Extension
8/5 - Chicken-keeping YouTube Videos
8/19 - Shade as a Drylands Strategy
Jul 15, 2023 Experience Moringas