Lyons Community Farm Project

29/05/2022

We out here! Just took a lunch break hit we will be back at the Lyons Food Forest in 15mins! The sun came out and we bout to shovel! Come join us 🌱 319 5th Ave 🌱

29/05/2022

Hey Lyons and Boulder Area Land Lovin Folks! Today is the day! is hosting our first Permaculture Action Day today from 10-4 at the Lyons Food Forest, 319 5th Ave!! Today we will have live music from ✨✨✨ while we dig and dance 🦋🦋🦋
So, what are we about?
- land regeneration
-carbon sequestration
-social permaculture
-land ethics
-land and people care
-soil regeneration
-community!
-food justice!
What are we doing today??
- morning land gratitude offering
- planting an elder(berry) spiral
- potting fruiting shrubs
- three sisters trellis pathway
- fairy garden and pollinator guild
- and more if we want!
Bring a shovel and a friend!
See event link in bio for more details or find us on Facebook by searching the Lyons Community Farm Project!

26/05/2022

Permaculture Action Day!

Join us on Sunday May 29th for a Permaculture Action Day at the Lyons Food Forest! Dance in the dirt to live music from Bloomurian as we plant flowers and trees!

We have some amazing projects we are ready to activate on the land and if we can gather at least 30 people for one day we can make them all happen pretty quickly so they can be enjoyed all season and for years to come! Bring a shovel! Bonus points for wheelbarrows!

Our action day is from 10-4 with a lunch break from 12:30-1:30. Bring a lunch or walk to the Saint Vrain Market, Moxie, or other yummy local food hubs nearby.

The Lyons Community Farm Project mission is to cultivate community in edible living classrooms that grow food and medicinal plants while regenerating soil environments, connecting communities to the local food movement, and facilitating ecosystem and culture restoration while honoring and uplifting ancestral wisdom from indigenous people.

Our first project site is the Lyons Food Forest at 319 5th Ave Lyons, CO! The Lyons Food Forest is public, edible forest garden! We are calling on community to make some magic happen! Our focus this weekend will include planting an Elderberry Spiral near the entrance of the property, continuing to work on our Pollinator Guild Fairy Garden, building a Three Sisters Children's Lodge, and sheet mulching our Medicine Wheel annual and perennial garden, to be planted in the Fall!

Saoirse Watters will lead our opening circle in the morning and an offering ceremony for the fairy garden and the nature spirits! If you would like to bring a whimsical and/or earthy offering for this ritual, please do!

Bloomurian will be playing some yummy, vibrant music for us to work, dance, play, and celebrate life to!

Please come and bring a friend, or 5! We are calling on community support to make this happen! This is a community led, collaborative project and while you're working with us, if you feel inspired and wanna create something, talk to us about it! Your ideas and dream seeds are welcome. As we plant this forest garden we are sowing the seeds of health and gratitude for generations to come.
Come play!

24/05/2022

We have trees! We have bees! We have plants! We have seeds! Join us on Sundayyy for a Permaculture Action Day featuring music from ✨💕🐝🌷
We will plant, play, and party ~ project list includes planting our Elder(berry) spiral, sheetmulching for our Medicine Wheel, building a Three Sisters Children’s Lodge, and expanding our Pollinator Fairy Garden fairy 🧚‍♂️🌸🌈💦🦋
Let’s get a big crew and seed dreams!! If we can gather at least 30 people we can do all of this in one day! Facebook event link in instagram bio and on our Lyons Community Farm Project page!
Bring a shovel! Or pick axe! Bonus points for wheelbarrows 🌞
See you Sunday?
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18/05/2022

Come make some bee houses with us today in Lyons! 5:30-7:30 PM at the Lyons Food Forest ~ 319 5th Ave Lyons, CO 💕🌱🌈
Tyler Stellern will be teaching us about the powerful pollinators that make magic happen all year long! We will make bee houses and start planting a pollinator guild! Come play!
Event info a link in bio and on our page ~ Lyons Community Farm Project. $20 registration upon arrival ~ cash, Venmo, or PayPal!

16/05/2022

We are so excited for our Pollinator Workshop with Tyler Stellern this Wednesday from 5:30-7:30! Beecome a bee conservationist, build bee houses, learn about pollinator plants and how to create a permaculture pollinator guild with us!! See event link in bio for more info!

13/05/2022

We are so excited to be at the Bee In on June 5th and Let it Bee Honey and More Store! So many bee talks, magical music, yummy elixirs, and educational opportunities to learn about the importance of protecting pollinators! 🐝🌸🌈

04/05/2022

Join us this Sunday for some baby tree planting, live music by .creative, and a plant sale! This is a totally kid friendly planting party for honoring Big Mama Earth and all the mamas and aunties around!
Link in bio for Facebook event and more info :)
“When we recognize the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.” Thich Nhat Hanh

26/04/2022

Unofficial Motto ~ Team work makes the dream work!
Yesterday we got to such a great start getting some of our fruiting trees and shrubs healing in! We have some more to put in the ground and would love some more community support tomorrow, 04/27 starting at 5:30 PM at 319 5th Ave. Bring a shovel or a pick axe and we’ll make quick work of it together! Thanks so much to all of our community members for helping out! We hope that these trees will provide fruit for the Lyons community for generations to come!

25/04/2022

Tonight!! Lyons peeps come plant some trees with us for the Lyons Food Forest! Bring a shovel and a regenerative spirit. We breakin ground at 6!

19/04/2022

Nasturtiums, poppies, and pumpkins oh my!
Come join us tomorrow for our biweekly Web of Life Community Meetings on the Lyons Food Forest land site, 319 5th Avenue Lyons, CO.... 5:30-7:30 PM!
Tomorrow we will give a land acknowledgment to the property where we are able to plant this years seeds. And afterwards we will look over and discuss our design (which is evolving) and determine which aspects we are ready to put in place this spring! We will also be scheduling community work days! So if you wanna get involved, tomorrow is a GREAT day to come (because you get to help choose work day dates!). Big love to our community and big mama, the earth that feeds us all!
“This we know, the Earth does not belong to us, we belong to the Earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.” - Chief Seattle

14/04/2022

It’s tree bud identification season! I love this lil image and it is getting saved on my phone! I love harvesting cottonwood buds for making cottonwood honey.. helps with sinuses all year! What medicines do you make in the spring? Or what tree can you not wait to see flower?!

13/04/2022

So in love with this picture of a couple of cuties! Photographer unknown 💗💗

We will be having a work day at our next Wednesday Web of Life Circle! We meet the first and third Wednesday of every month and next week we will meet on site for the Lyons Food Forest to put in some beds for our herbs and perennial babies.
We are so grateful to our community for supporting a thriving new agricultural system. Food sovereignty and awareness is one of our passions and core values. We hope to help community become more engaged in the local food movement. If you are a local grower, milker, farmer, or medicine maker, let us know! However big or small, if you’re selling food a crafts you grew and made yourself, we would love to know. We are compiling a list to share.
Hope today is a rainbow day for you too! Happy Tuesday! See ya next week! 🌺

10/04/2022

A lil springtime magic happening today in the greenhouse at Yellow Barn Farm!

06/04/2022

Join us this evening in the greenhouse! We had some pesky mice eat some of our seeds so we are replanting a few trays (and coving them with lil humidity domes). We will also be scheduling future work days and just getting our hands dirty. If you wanna bring an instrument and sing a song to the plant babies, I hear they like music! Tonight 5:30-sunset at 2052 Apple Valley Road Lyons, CO … don’t knock on the front door! Go through gate to the right of the house and straight back to the greenhouse. Close gates behind you, there are chickens and things we don’t want to escape :) see you soon!

05/04/2022

Join us tomorrow for seed planting and community conversations about the local food movement and how to get involved! Tomorrow we are meeting at the greenhouse where our seeds are on Lyons, CO! Come join us at 5:30 at 2052 Apple Valley Rd. Let’s plants some seeds and visualize our intentions for the upcoming season and years to come!

05/04/2022

How do you define abundance?
How do we, as a culture, define and consider abundance?
Yesterday, a beautiful human gifted us these eggs. They don’t even need to be dyed for Easter, already so gorgeous. They come from healthy hens on a hobby farm near Manitou Springs. If this isn’t abundance, then I don’t know what is.
Healthy hens, fertile soils, generous friendships, happy kids, magic moments, abounding beauty.
Thank you, beautiful Earth 🌎💦🌿

04/04/2022

is our amazing Board Director and we just gotta shout her out cause it was her birthday this weekend! Erin we love you and your tenacity, fire, directness, accountability, and pizazz. Raise your hand if you’d like to be as cool as Erin when you grow up! 🙋🏼‍♀️
Thanks for holding it down like you do! 🧡🌿🌺

02/04/2022

Pinch me! Am I dreaming? Is it really springtime?
We have about 2000 seeds planted in the greenhouse and 400 root stock shrubs and fruiting trees delivered! Wanna join us to build the Lyons Food Forest? We have seeds to water, trees to pot, soil to support, and dreams to make happen. Message us if you wanna join us for our community work days or come to our Wednesday Web of Life Community Circle this upcoming Wednesday! Location tba in next couple days :) our community meetings are a great way to get engaged in the local food movement, learn new skills, and be a part of our dreaming/planning process.
Hope to see you soon!
Happy Saturday 🌱🌷🌱

20/03/2022

Last Minute Community Work Day Today!!
Happy Ostara! Feelin springy out there 🌿 We are planting seeds today in Lyons for the greenhouse! I’d you wanna join us this afternoon, text 337-258-0875. Have a gorgeous day!

16/03/2022

Join us tonight for our second Web of Life Community Meeting! In honor of the approaching Equinox, we will celebrate the shifting seasons with a gratitude ritual. music, a conversation about how we can support our local food movement, and yummy fresh eats! This is a celebratory gathering and all are welcome. 6-8:30! See you soon!

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02/03/2022

Our first Wednesday Web of Life Community Circle is today at 5:30 PM just outside Lyons, CO! We are really excited to begin an essential dialogue about how we can engage as a community in food activism, permaculture, land restoration, and culture restoration. Find all the info on the website link in our instagram bio or through our facebook event on our Lyons Community Farm Project page! Can't wait to see ya!

In gratitude,
Saoirse

Art by

01/03/2022

Hi lovelies.
Here’s a lil song seed I’m watering and sharing in this spring sunlight. ✨listen with headphones or high quality speakers ✨ So thankful for the songs that come through and how they teach me. Songwriting is such a fun and collaborative experience with the universe for me. If you make it to the end of the song you’ll notice one of my strings dropped out of tune 😅 such is life!
Also inviting you to Wednesday Web of Life Community Circle in Lyons, Colorado starting tomorrow, March 2nd! These circles are welcome to EVERYONE regardless of creed, belief, race, identification, and all that jazz. We are inclusive by nature and want everyone to feel they have a place here. Click the link in my bio for more info or search for Lyons Community Farm Project on Facebook and you’ll find a lil event page :)
Mmm big love to us all as we figure out how to live on this earth and be in relationship with our living and non-living, human and non-human cohabitants. May love be the guiding the guiding force and may this beautiful, wild earth be plentiful and healthy for the next seven generations and on.
Thank you for this day, what a breath of fresh life.
Xo
Saoirse

28/02/2022

Wow we have so much happening here in Lyons these next two months! Come and join us for some of our workshops and circles! This Wednesday is our first Web of Life Community Circle! Come and discuss permaculture, ethics, mycology, community building, how to feed ourselves well, herbalism, and social reform with us! Our first community circle will be led by Saoirse (.creative ) and in upcoming weeks we will have lots of guest teachers as well ☺️
We wanna hear what you wanna learn also! Additionally, if you have some permaculture and/or land based etc skills you are wanting to share or a workshop you’d like to offer, feel free to message me to see if you would be a good fit as a guest facilitator. It would be great if you come to 2 circles before facilitating 😉
Oh we are so excited for spring! See you soon!
Lyons Community Farm Project Team

28/02/2022

“Cuisine is how do you eat the whole farm, how do you eat the whole landscape? That’s cuisine. That is southern cooking.”

This is such a great listen about the future of food, agriculture, and resilience. Y’all check it out! Thanks Erin Donnelly for the tip 🌿

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-future-of-food/id1514968525?i=1000552037109

‎Show Politicology, Ep The Future of Food - Feb 23, 2022

27/02/2022

Hi Lyons Community!
We just wanna share our late winter/early spring schedule with you all! We hope you join us for some of our upcoming events and workshops!
To find detailed info all in one place visit https://ashtreecreativecollective.com/march-april.../
If you have any questions, reach out! If you would like to be a part of our core team at Lyons Community Farm Project, we are always recruiting new members.
Abrazos!
Lyons Community Farm Project Team

21/02/2022

Y’all we are so excited! Yesterday felt like spring and we are getting ready for the season. (Even if it is going to seriously freeze this week). Join us on Wednesday evenings starting in March to talk all things permaculture, environmental regeneration, cultures restoration, community oriented living, soil building, herbs, plants, etc etc 🥰 Click the link in our Instagram bio to reach our Facebook event with all the info you need to join us. Or DM us if you have a question cause you aren’t on Facebook 😉
Happy Monday! Let’s make it a good one!
Abrazos y amor
Lyons Community Farm Project Team

15/02/2022

We are so excited about this year's Boulder Permaculture Design Course! The Boulder PDC has some truly incredible teachers! If you are interested in deepening your knowledge of permaculture, sustainability, building community, and all things plants this is an excellent opportunity! There are still a couple scholarships available! The link to register is in our instagram bio this week!

From the Boulder PDC website
"This course is a deep dive into regenerative design, grounded in the permaculture ethics and principles as well as local ecology. In addition to completing a group design project, you will learn an abundance of earth care techniques–managing water, building healthy soil, designing and planting food forests, integrating livestock, and much more. You will also get an introduction to natural building and social permaculture. This course is designed to showcase applications of permaculture on many scales, from urban settings to farms. Expect to spend a few hours outside of class working on your design project."

See you there!

09/02/2022

Goood Morning and Happy Wednesday! We wanna keep introducing you to our team members at Lyons Community Farm Project! Hopefully someone reading this will get inspired and join us too!
Tyler Stellern has been showing up to all the meetings and keeping us clear on what it is we are aiming for in the big picture. He is our Board Treasurer and a lover of bees and flowers!
Tyler started his career after receiving a business degree from CU Boulder. He helped start up the organic soap and cosmetic company, Pangea Organics, and served as the director of finance. There, he started an organic educational community garden dedicated to education on sustainability. He is currently the owner of his own company, Simply Bee Organics, which is dedicated to educating people on what they can do to save the bees!
And now he’s here with us.. growing a super dope public food forest in Lyons. We feel lucky to work with such inspiring folks.
Come join our project! Message us here to join or email us at [email protected]