Each week, members of the Women Grow Food program engage in hands-on learning at the Deep Dirt Farm greenhouse. This program was founded and led by permaculture practitioner Kate Tirion of Deep Dirt Farm, a graduate of the renowned UC Santa Cruz Farm Program. 

​Members utilize the greenhouse facility, tools, seeds, and materials as they gain valuable training in permaculture techniques. Members then leave with a share of the day's seasonal harvest. 

Kate Tirion is currently taking a few months’ hiatus to focus her energies on new projects. Cheridyn Egan has stepped in to serve as interim coordinator, ably guiding the efforts of WGF participants along with volunteers who continue to tend the plantings in alternating, COVID-wise shifts, trap the endless legions of vermin and pests who find the farm’s veggies irresistible, and perform the other myriad tasks required to keep the vegetable beds producing. 

Come join this group of lively, fun and dedicated women as we learn to grow and harvest fresh, organic garden vegetables! ​
  • Learn how to grow organic vegetables in the desert.
  • Learn how to build structures that support farming.
  • Learn about integrating human & wildlife habitat from a master teacher.
  • Take home freshly-harvested organic vegetables that you helped produce!

Participants generally harvest more than $50 worth of organic groceries a month, and we love to share recipes!

Suggested donation of $50 per month, sliding fee scale available starting at $5 per month.

***Women Grow Food will not be active through the summer as temperatures are very high from June through August. We will resume programming in the fall of 2021.***

Contact wgf@borderlandsrestoration.org for more information and to volunteer. 

This program is possible through the generous support of donors. To make a donation, click here. 

​Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than hurried and thoughtless labor; and of looking at plants and animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single product system.
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In addition to the wild plants and animals, our campus supports food production for humans. Kate hosts gardening workshops that help participants understand how to grow healthy organic food while building soil and revitalizing the landscape. Her gardens and orchards are tucked in among the native plants along her "Path of Least Resistance" that winds through the valley and take advantage of different soil types and micro-climates around the property.