July 26 - July 27, 2025, 8:30am - 4:30pm. Crestone, CO.
Join us for a hands-on, two-day workshop focused on cultivating food forests, best practices for growing in a greenhouse, soil building and high-desert permaculture gardens. taught by Jerome Osentowski of Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute.
Email OESDirector@CrestoneEnergyFair.Org or call Goldie at 303-903-0968 with any questions.
Community Price: $300
Low-income pricing, supported by your peers (only 4 spots available)
Supporter Price: $450
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Sustainer Price: $600
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Price includes two days of instruction and lunch each day. Additional meals and lodging not included.
A forager and permaculturist with roots in rural Nebraska, Jerome lives in a passive solar home he built at 7200 feet above Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley. A permaculture designer for 30 years, he has built five green houses for himself and countless others for private clients and public schools in the Rockies and beyond. He makes a living from an intensely cultivated one acre of indoor and outdoor forest garden and plant nursery, which he uses as a backdrop for intensive permaculture and greenhouse design courses. He is also the author of the Forest Garden Greenhouse.
Jerome and his business partner and co-author, Michael Thompson, have also been instrumental in identifying, conserving, and propagating heritage fruit trees that have survived and borne crops over a century in the harsh environment of the Roaring Fork Valley. Jerome’s explanations of sustainable systems and his development projects have taken him to Baja, Nicaragua, Patagonia, Finland, Australia, and the Caribbean.