Our mission is to cultivate resilient relationships with food and natural systems through land-based learning.
We nourish our community and the land we steward by hosting school and community groups and events, facilitating workshops, supporting community gardens, consulting and collaborating with partners, cooking and sharing food, promoting creative expression, holding seasonal festivals, and advocating for healthy relationships with people and the planet.
History
Flying Pig Farm offers itself as a community learning garden to the children, neighbors, and curious people of the Pikes Peak Region. Students of all ages are invited to programs, classes, workshops, and meals shared at Flying Pig with the express purpose of deepening knowledge and relationship with high-quality nutrition and carefully tended plants. Through hands-on educational experiences, we link fifty students a week to plants, animals, and the environmental history of the region. We currently host student groups from Manitou Springs Middle School and Community Prep School on a regular basis. Each growing season we offer community garden plots, donation-based produce, and Farm Camps.
The farm sits on 3 acres of historic land in Manitou Springs, CO. The farm is located on ancestral Ute territory and in 1919 became a tree nursery under the stewardship of Everard Keithley. Everard was the superintendent of Pikes National Forest and re-forested much of what had been lost to wildfires and logging. In 2014, Doug Edmundson, the great-grandson of Everard Keithley partnered with local farmers to transform the old nursery into a community farm and gathering space. Doug and his wife, Annie, continue to live on-site, serving on Flying Pig Farm’s board, and hosting guests at their wonderful Airbnbs!