Enjoy a drive into the mountains to see the beautiful high-altitude gardens of Sage Mountain Center on Saturday, July 23, 10am-2pm. Features include organic edible landscapes, Permaculture designs, drip irrigation, cultivars of herbs, fruits trees, vegetables, flowers, as well as, water retention techniques, and mulching options. At 6,300 ft elevation, the solar water heated straw bale greenhouse provides an abundance … Read More
Practical Permaculture: Grow Your Own Food Intensive
Practical Permaculture: Grow Your Own Food IntensiveApril 22-24, 2022Sage Mountain Center, Whitehall, Montana Transform your land and your life… A weekend workshop covering cold climate design strategies for gardeners, homesteaders, and those who want a little more self-reliance. Learn how to design a property that captures water, improves your soil and produces healthy organic food, all while regenerating the land … Read More
Garden Open House
Enjoy a drive into the mountains to see the beautiful high-altitude gardens of Sage Mountain Center. July 10, Saturday from 10 am to 2 pm, located off Toll Mountain Road between Butte and Whitehall off Hwy 2. Features include organic edible landscapes, Permaculture designs, drip irrigation, cultivars of herbs, fruits trees, vegetables, flowers, as well as, water retention techniques, and … Read More
The Beauty of Cordwood Construction
Chris Borton presented about “The Beauty of Cordwood Construction” at the Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives’ Brown Bag Lunch series on March 27, 2019. A Cordwood building is the “other” kind of log home based on a centuries-old technique that is as easy and inexpensive for beginners as it is beautiful. With the look of artistic stone from a distance, cordwood … Read More
Brown Bag Lecture
The Butte Archives recently requested Chris Borton speak about off-grid living at their Brown Bag event, a bi-weekly lecture series held at the Archives in Uptown Butte. Prior to the event, local news station KXLF interviewed Borton at Sage Mountain Center: 75 people attended the lecture. You can read a transcript of the video here.
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