Are you serious about stewarding land as a part of your livelihood or lifestyle? Are you committed to both growing food and supporting ecological health? Our programs are designed to help provide the knowledge, skills, network, and resources you need to start or grow your vision. Whether you are already a landowner or land manager, or you are seeking a place to land, we encourage you to explore our offerings and reach out with any questions.
Regenerative Homesteading Intensive
In progress for 2026. Please contact us if you are interested in being on the notification list for our 2027 course!
Alternating Saturdays June 13th-September 5th 8:00-1:30 + 6 Recorded Sessions
In the context of an increasingly instant, fast paced, and automated world, deciding to cultivate food for yourself, your family, and your community is a powerful commitment to a grounded, relational, and gratitude-rich way of life. This class is designed for those eager to live that reality or operate community-integrated farms and homesteads. It provides a hands-on, immersive dive into key ecological frameworks and how to use them to cultivate vegetables, staple crops, fruits, medicinal herbs, and pasture in systems integrated with livestock. Capped at 15 participants.
Facilitated Design Intensive
Open for registration!
Dates: Saturdays 9:00am-5:00pm Oct 17th, 24th, & 31st
Ecological design is the art of aligning landscape observation skills, ecological knowledge, clear goals, and realistic management strategies to make design decisions. This course will walk participants through the complete ecological design process in order to create a master plan for an emerging community farm project, providing a practical framework for participants to take home and apply on their own land or other projects.
Geared towards participants who have taken a permaculture design course, regenerative homesteading intensive, or have lived experience with permaculture/agroecology.
Mentorship & Implementation Support
Getting a project off the ground can be daunting, and we would love to help you get started. We can support you with project implementation, specific farm skills or activities, planning, materials acquisition, managing volunteers, setting up back-end systems, etc… on a retainer or as-needed basis.
A La Carte Permaculture Design Certification
Sometimes a full permaculture design course can feel daunting. If getting a certification is important to you, it is possible to combine participation in the following programs to receive a permaculture design certification through PINA. This allows you to pick and choose which pieces are most appropriate for you, and space them (or cram them all together!) to fit your schedule*.
Niwot Homestead Volunteer Membership: Hands-On Skills
You must attend at least 8 full volunteer days at the Niwot Homestead to achieve a certification. Becoming a volunteer member for the year is the easiest way to do this and provides you with first priority registration for all 38 annual volunteer days. This is a flexible, accessible way to participate in the hands-on activities that interest you most on the days when you are available.
Regenerative Homesteading Intensive: Theory & Implementation
This course covers the key concepts of a permaculture design course, uniting those concepts with hands-on implementation experience.
Facilitated Design Intensive: Ecological Design
This course will both cover the permaculture design process and give you a chance to complete your own site design as required by the PINA curriculum.
*Though it is our hope and intention to run all of these courses each year, we are not currently able to guarantee that all of them will be offered annually. Please take that into account if you are considering pursuing a certification!
If you are registering for any of the above programs with the intention of gaining a permaculture design certification, please let us know so we can support you on that journey!