Cresset Center News:
Love the Water
September 12th to September 14th, 2024 @ the Cresset Center: Uhrich Farm 503 S CR1, Johnstown, CO Located on an operating organic farm bordering the Big Thompson River, the Cresset Center has a unique opportunity to host experiential water learning. The imagination for this water curriculum is to cultivate a love and knowledge of the “element of life” through learning about water from the perspectives of Goethean Science, Indigenous knowledge,…
A Family Story of Landing
The Historic Henry H. Uhrich Farm has been in the family for over 100 years! In 1918 farming brothers Jake and Henry Uhrich purchased the land from Adam Smith. The brothers grew sugar beets (Loveland’s primary industry for years) for the GW sugar company as a primary crop, raised Hereford beef cattle, and grew a rotation of hay and small grains including barley for Coors brewery. Henry also did blacksmithing and built…
Love the Land Farm Festival
Join us for the very first Love the Land Farm Festival at the Cresset Center on September 14th! This will be an opportunity to celebrate the agricultural heritage of this region, while participating and imagining into the future of the Cresset center as a community sanctuary of biodiversity and culture. In 2022 the Henry H. Uhrich Farm succeeded in attaining a conservation easement, ensuring that this land will remain an…
Top Bar Beekeeping
Keeping bees in top bar hives is a practical and natural alternative to traditional, commercial beekeeping that is less invasive to the bees, and more in sync with the natural rhythms and life cycles of the bee colony. For backyard beekeepers interested in learning more about the ancient and mysterious ways of these fascinating creatures, top bar hives are an excellent choice. Essentially a long, trapezoidal wooden box…
Welcome Friends
The Cresset Center for Ecology, Agriculture & the Arts is a non-profit cultural center and historic farmstead dedicated to inspiring the ecological and social imagination of the people of the Northern Front Range by creating a sanctuary for bio-diverse agriculture, wildlife habitat, community education and the arts. The Cresset Center’s mission is to promote, preserve and educate folks on the ethics of long-term conservation and stewardship of unique…
Uhrich Farm Earth Healing
On June 24th, the feast day of John the Baptist, we will gather with Dana Burns and her family to celebrate the milestone of the conservation easement, and to offer healing medicines to the suffering heart of the earth. Through singing, poetry, storytelling and ceremony, integrated with the stirring and application of the biodynamic preparations, we will seek to weave a fabric of healing with old friends, supporters…
