Gardening Classes and Workshops
Ashland Oregon
Coming in 2026
Urban Food
Production
Distinctive technologies to add to any backyard depending on your space, time, and aesthetic needs.
Designed for optimum water conservancy and low-labor
All classes cover basics in soil-building and composting techniques
Hands-on 3 day workshops and annual picnic
Technologies
Hugelkulture
Warning: Earthmoving ahead!
An important runoff/water/saving strategy, and once implemented Hukel beds are excellent moisture and soil incubators, producing an underground environment for several types of crops to thrive.
Permaculture
Guilds Basics
After initial soil preparation, a mostly perennial (plant it once) strategy with some seed/annual additions.
Easy to add anywhere is small sections, or to augment aesthetic gardens with some food crops.
French Intensive Bio-Dynamic kitchen garden
Or, how to grow more food than you ever thought possible on less space than you imagined*.
Maybe more digging than you imagined, but very little weeding once planted. High yields per foot.
Clipping greens
A simple way to have fresh salad all spring/summer/fall without ever touching a shovel or needing much space.
About Jess
Raised in the shadow of the Nuclear threat, Jess was an early 'survivalist', living off the land, preserving food, hunting and fishing, making tools, and living off-grid for decades of her life. She has lived on farms and knows many technologies for food production.
Now in her mid-60's, Jess teaches meditation, runs a housing cooperative with gardens, and passes on her knowledge.