From Seed to Jar
What happens when we stop thinking of gardening and food preservation as separate skills—and instead experience the whole process together?
From Seed to Jar is an immersive A Homemade Heritage Family Workshop designed to help families learn, work, make, experiment, and try new things side by side.
We’ll begin in the garden, exploring practical ways to grow more food in the space you have. You’ll see how our family grows tomatoes, cucumbers, pole beans, winter squash, and other crops vertically, and we’ll talk about ideas that can work whether you have acreage, a suburban backyard, or a patio.
Then we’ll move from growing to harvesting as families pick cucumbers straight from the garden and use them to make a jar of naturally fermented pickles together.
Along the way, we’ll learn the basics of vegetable fermentation, taste several of our family’s favorite ferments—including sauerkraut, spicy sauerkraut, fermented pickles, and fermented pico—and talk about how to recognize what’s normal as food ferments.
Families will also plant a fall crop to take home and continue growing, and we’ll talk about what can still be planted in our area as summer begins turning toward fall.
Keep Going at Home
We don’t want the experience to end when you leave our homestead.
Every family will head home with another complete fermentation setup and the fresh ingredients needed to make fermented pico together in your own kitchen.
The goal isn’t “homework.” It’s to help your family discover that you really can take what you learned here and do it again in your own space.
What Your Family Registration Includes
- One reusable wide-mouth quart fermentation setup with mason jar, fermentation weight, and Pickle Pipe
- Cucumbers, garlic, dill, brine, and seasonings to make fermented pickles during the workshop
- One reusable wide-mouth pint fermentation setup with mason jar, fermentation weight, and Pickle Pipe
- Fresh ingredients to make fermented pico at home
- A small planted fall crop to take home and continue growing
- Seeds to continue experimenting at home
- Tastings of several homemade fermented foods
- Printed recipes for sauerkraut, spicy sauerkraut, fermented pickles, and fermented pico
- Fermentation basics and troubleshooting information
- A local late-summer/fall planting guide
- Digital resources you can add to your Heritage Family Library
A Note About Seasonal Produce
Because this workshop is rooted in growing and working with fresh, seasonal food, the exact produce and projects may occasionally need to change based on what’s thriving in the garden and what’s available locally. If Mother Nature has other plans, we’ll simply adjust! Any substitutions will be thoughtfully chosen to provide the same hands-on learning experience and skills your family can carry home.
More Than Learning a Skill
A Homemade Heritage Family Workshops are designed to be more than traditional classes.
Our hope is to create meaningful experiences where parents and children can learn, work, problem-solve, make something real, and discover what they’re capable of together.
We want your family to leave not only knowing how to grow or ferment something new, but inspired to carry more learning, making, growing, and working together into everyday family life.
That’s why we intentionally keep our workshops small. We want room for questions, participation, conversation, exploration, and connection—not a rushed checklist of activities.
Want More Than One Project Set?
Every family registration includes one complete set of materials for all of our hands-on projects.
If your family would like additional sets so siblings or family members can work more independently, you may add:
Additional Project Set — $40 each
Each additional set includes:
- An additional quart fermentation setup + ingredients for fermented pickles
- An additional pint fermentation setup + ingredients for fermented pico
- An additional pot, soil, and seeds for the growing project
That way, each person with an additional set can make their own pickles, take home their own pico project, and plant their own fall crop.
Who Is This For?
This workshop is designed for families to participate together.
We welcome a wide range of ages, and children will naturally participate at different levels depending on their age, interest, and ability. Parents remain alongside their children throughout the experience and are responsible for determining which activities are appropriate for them.
Our workshops are genuinely hands-on and may involve garden tools, kitchen equipment, food preparation, animals, heat, or other activities with inherent risks. Families should come prepared to participate together and supervise their own children throughout the experience.
Workshop Details
Date: Friday, August 21, 2026
Time: 8:30–11:00am
Location: Our family homestead in northwest Monument, a few minutes west of I-25
Capacity: 10 families
Registration: $135 per family
Additional Project Sets: $40 each
Exact address, parking details, what to bring, and final arrival information will be emailed to registered families before the workshop.
Can’t Make This One?
Love the idea, but this date or time doesn’t work for your family?
We’re already thinking about future Family Workshops and would love to know what works better for you. Your feedback will help us decide when to schedule upcoming workshops—and whether to offer another From Seed to Jar.
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