Minifarm Open Hours, Winter 2025-2026

Open hours are fairly informal and unstructured. On any given day, expect a mix of pre-planned activities and extra time for ad hoc activities, tours, or conversations.

In winter, likely activities include:

• Establish and tend food forest patches
• Small building projects
• Scarify and stratify seeds
• Start and tend cuttings
• Pollard trees
• Make biochar
• Start and tend compost such as
• - Static compost (for trees and bushes)
• - Kitchen compost (for herbaceous plants)
• - Leaf mold
• - Vermicompost
• Make and apply other amendments such as
• - Compost extract
• - Compost tea
• - JADAM microbial solution
• - JADAM liquid fertilizer
• Install and maintain irrigation
• Plant trees and bushes
• Process and preserve yields like
• - Native desert flora
• - Herbal teas
• - Sugar / jaggery
• - Moringa leaves
• - Fruits
• - Acorns

Kids are invited, too. They will be under your supervision.

Open hours are free.

There is plenty of street parking along Jasmine (on the north) and Pima (on the east).

QUESTIONS? Call Jason at 480-326-8199

Find out more about Sage Garden Ecovillas:

http://SageGardenEcovillas.com/

Also check out other Kids events & activities in Mesa.