About our programs
Flying Pig Farm works to cultivate resilient relationships with food and natural systems through land-based learning.
Flying Pig Farm serves the community as a hub of creativity, cultivation, and learning. With the generous support of our community, we raised a year-round yurt classroom and provided programming to over 1500 students this year.
Our Programs
Farm to School
Curriculum-integrated visits with over 1,000 Pikes Peak Region students in 2023 and 1500 in 2024!
Field Trips: 1-3 hour field trips for local schools and community groups looking for hands-on learning. We regularly host groups from Manitou Springs Middle School, Community Prep School, and Ft Carson’s Warrior Recovery Center.
Agricultural Arts: After-school program for students grades 2-9 from many school districts.
Social Emotional Learning (SEL): We host social emotional learning and SOAR groups from MSSD14 and provide SEL focused educational experiences across all programs.
Arts Programming
Public workshops including natural dye workshops, printmaking, murals, and group-specific creative learning for veterans and disabled adults.
The Flying Pig Farm Art Program gives visitors, neighbors, gardeners and their friends a chance to build artistic autonomy through partnership with the natural world. The Dye Garden is the foundation of our arts programming, where we cultivate dyes and pigments for outdoor art classes and workshops.
Life Skills and Internships
Hands-on internship opportunities to gain work experience. Students from Manitou Springs High School, PPCC, and CC receive hands-on instruction in life skills and internship opportunities to gain work experience in food production and community engagement.
Community Compost
Diverting food scraps from the landfill in partnership with Food to Power. In partnership with Food to Power, we host a dropoff site for neighbors to help divert food scraps from the landfill.
Community Gardens
Garden plots and mentorship to 25 community members looking to grow their own gardens. We offer garden plots and mentorship to community members looking to grow their own gardens.
Farm Camps
Fun, safe and engaging programming during school breaks for kids 7-18. Farm Camp immerses campers in an agriculture and arts-based curriculum designed to grow their relationships to food and the natural world in a safe, supportive, and fun environment. Each session we connect campers with plants, food, animals, insects, and each other.
All of our programs are accessible regardless of ability to pay and most programs are sliding scale.