Come out to visit the Agri-Nature Center and pick a beautiful bouquet of flowers from our cut flower bed!

Are you a farmer ready to take the next step towards value-added products? Are you a home gardener interested in gaining new skills? Join us for a Food Preservation series, taught by Three Sisters Kitchen and supported by a USDA Specialty Crop Block Grant. We’ll offer hands-on workshops for five different food preservation and production techniques. Each technique is offered twice.

Are you a farmer ready to take the next step towards value-added products? Are you a home gardener interested in gaining new skills? Join us for a Food Preservation series, taught by Three Sisters Kitchen and supported by a USDA Specialty Crop Block Grant. We’ll offer hands-on workshops for five different food preservation and production techniques. Each technique is offered twice.

Join John Garlisch with Bernalillo County Extension Office to learn about vegetables that grow well in the fall and winter as well as tips for your vegetable garden. This workshop is offered as a FREE partnership between the Extension Office and the Village of Los Ranchos!

It’s time to stock your herbal medicine chest for the colder months ahead! In this informative and hands-on class, we’ll explore how herbs can support the body in both preventing and easing symptoms of colds and flu.

We’ll discuss herbal approaches to common seasonal ailments such as sore throats and coughs, and share simple, effective remedy recipes you can use at home.

Working with herbs gathered from the Healer’s Garden, we’ll craft a warming cold-season herbal cordial to take home and add to your winter wellness toolkit.

Explore the rich tradition of herbal medicine within curanderismo and discover how plants are woven into our rituals and healing practices. We’ll explore the history and uses of important plants in curanderismo, such as Cempasúchil/Aztec Marigold, Rosemary, and Rue, and learn how plants are prepared as teas, limpias, and baños.  Each participant will make their own herbal baño/bath tea blend to take home.

Register for this and the next two Healers Garden class as a 3-class package and receive a $20 discount on the total cost!

Join Hilary Freeman, MS, RDN, LD, for a free community talk on the body changes of perimenopause and menopause — and how nutrition can help you navigate them. We'll cover bone health, heart health, nutrition changes, symptom management, and whether supplementation is right for you.

Come visit the Agri-Nature Center and pick a beautiful bouquet of flowers form our cut flower bed, AND turn your bouquet into a magnificent flower arrangement with a tutorial from the Valley Gardeners Garden Club, who will be joining us for this final session!

It’s time once again for the Village’s annual bike tour, Tour de Los Ranchos ’26! This year, our guided bicycle tour will allow participants to experience not only gardens and farms in the Village of Los Ranchos, it will also feature a little bit of architectural history along the way! Each stop on the tour has been selected by tour organizers to showcase a variety of agricultural and horticultural techniques, with an emphasis on public support for agriculture and educational partnerships.

Meet at the Agri-Nature Center at 8am, and bring your own helmet, water and any snacks that may want to bring along the way. Gravel or hybrid bikes are most appropriate for this tour (no road bikes) and riders are encouraged to make sure their tires contain sealant prior to the tour.

Following the tour, enjoy good company and a catered lunch at the Agri-Nature Center!

Celebrate the season’s bounty with the Agri-Nature Center at our FREE annual Fall Festival! Enjoy market produce from the Ag Center and local farmers! Take part in seasonal activities like apple cider pressing, chile roasting, and pumpkin carving! Celebrate with local food trucks, beer and wine, arts and crafts, music and more!

Across cultures and through time, plants have been honored for their spiritual and magical properties. In this class, we’ll meet plants such as mugwort that have a long history of traditional use and explore their roles in protection, cleansing, opening  intuition, and activating dreams.

We’ll work with the plants harvested from the Healer’s Garden to create a dream bundle for each participant to take home.

With a little attention to patching and mending, a quality sweater can last a lifetime. Get ready for winter with our final class of the series and learn visible mending techniques to give your favorite knitwear a fresh, unique look and make sure it lasts another season.