lifelong learning

Lifelong Learning programs offered at Denver Botanic Gardens are focused on providing participants with a wide variety of educational courses designed to enrich your life by providing you with the tools that enable you to eat better, grow more and purchase less, and overall live a more sustainable life.

Course listings and online registration

Upcoming Classes

Growing Food in Raised Vegetable Garden Beds

Saturday, May 18, 2013 - 10 a.m.
York Street
Class - Lifelong Learning| Adults

It has never been easier to grow your own food and there is no easier way than in a raised vegetable garden bed!

Pests and Diseases of Roses - Three Easy Ways of Dealing with Them

Saturday, May 18, 2013 - 10 a.m.
York Street
Class - Lifelong Learning| Adults

Most gardens include a rose bush or two or twenty! Congress designated the rose as America’s national floral emblem in 1986. The popularity of growing roses began thousands of years ago and continues today.

Backyard Goat Keeping

Saturday, May 18, 2013 - 2 p.m.
York Street
Class - Lifelong Learning| Adults

An accessible introduction for anyone who is interested in raising backyard dwarf dairy goats.

Fabulous Foraging - Wild Edibles and Medicinals

Sunday, May 19, 2013 - 9 a.m.
Chatfield
Class - Lifelong Learning| Adults

Explore the treasure trove of wild herbs, medicinal plants and edible weeds common to every backyard with clinical herbalist Susan Evans.

Backyard Chicken Keeping

Sunday, May 19, 2013 - 2 p.m.
York Street
Class - Lifelong Learning| Adults

An accessible introduction for anyone who is interested in raising backyard hens.

Join Sundari Kraft of EatWhereULive for an accessible introduction to raising backyard hens. Topics covered will include: