We Love Mother Earth
Coined in the 1970s by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, permaculture blends “permanent” with “agriculture” or “culture.” It describes a system for creating sustainable, self-sufficient habitats that work with nature, not against it. These Long-term systems replenish resources instead of depleting them. Originally about farming, permaculture now extends to energy, housing, economics, and community life. We are slowly but surely building such landscapes in Lakewood, Strasburg, and Crestone.
Kriya house has a network of compassionate, mindful individuals who are capable of working together to cultivate community and be stewards of the land. Our team is capable of financial planning, facilitating collaboration across cultures, running a farm, taking care of animals, facilitating retreats, taking care of elderly, and running land-based businesses.
You can find more members of our community on the “About” page.
Services
We are healing the earth through our work with permaculture educator Living Systems Institutes gardener program Reinhabit. We’re growing vibrant communities through individual homeowners, and connecting them to gardeners who are paid through our organization. If you’re interested in becoming a paid gardener, please fill out this application form, get oriented, complete the 4 seasons workshops, agent of habitat quiz, and get on our roster! If you’re interest in becoming a client, please reach out to here.
Build-a-System
- Governance & vision facilitation (with partners like Intentioneers.net)
- Land & infrastructure planning (water, energy, housing)
- Soil & food systems setup (permaculture, aquaponics, agroforestry)
- Community launch (events, outreach, onboarding)
Pop-Up Community Events
“Skill + Chill” gatherings with music, food, and hands-on projects like:
- Lawn-to-garden conversion workshops
- Resources for edible landscaping
- Aquaponics and mushrooms for food security
- Guild planting and other permaculture treasures
- Farm-To-Table Dinners
- Pop-Up Art Bus Experience with Permaculture Educational Materials
Regenerative Lawn-to-Life Service
Practical services for homeowners and neighborhoods:
- Converting lawns into biodiverse food gardens
- Planting pollinator habitats & medicinal herb gardens
- Edible perennial landscaping
- We train you on the methodology and help you set it up!
The following links are resources we support and work alongside to make the world a better, more sustainable place rooted in good works!
Referrals and Recommendations
Living Systems Institute is a nonprofit based in Golden, Colorado, dedicated to restoring ecological balance through education, hands-on action, and community empowerment. Kriya House’s Emmy works in their Re-Inhabit Gardeners Program training and assisting homeowners to transform conventional suburban yards into thriving permaculture systems. Through seasonal workshops, deep-mulch bed building, irrigation setup, carbon cycling education, and regenerative land care practices, participants learn to work with natural processes to build healthy soil, conserve water, grow abundant food, and create vibrant habitats right where they live.
We are very much volunteer led, and looking to lighten the load of the director of the program. If you have fundraising and grant writing experience, or want to rally local neighborhood through outreach with flyers to homeowners, or presenting slideshows at local community centers, we are in need of collecting donations or increasing our clientele for profit so we can continue to regenerate the soil beneath our feet for the benefit of pollinators and the resilience of local communities.
Living Designs Landscaping is run by a fellow Kriya Yogi, and we happily refer Dan for your landscape design and construction needs. He provides design work to bring your concept to life, hardscaping including retaining walls, pavers, walkways, decks and fences, irrigation, planting, and much, much more! We specialize in helping clients increase the value and beauty
Since the murder of George Floyd (and before), citizens have been organizing to provide food, resources toward health care and housing, and survival gear to thousands of underserved people in the Denver area (and beyond, with networks outside of M.A.M aka Mutual Aid Monday). Click the link to be directed to their google drive where you will find statements of philosophy and mission and resources for housing, medication, and food.
Mutual Aid comrades provide weekly hot meals for whoever shows up, whether on Colfax and and Chase street on Fridays from 6:30pm, or on Bannock street by Civic Center Park in Denver on Mondays from 4pm. The community has grown to include ICE resistance groups, blowing whistles during kidnappings, calling CORRN, informing loved ones. Another offshoot of mutual aid has been a gardening network and a hub of resources around seed swaps and information.
Open Source Ecology is a global movement creating freely accessible, modular blueprints for sustainable living — from tractors to eco-homes — empowering communities to build resilient, regenerative economies using open-source tools and collaboration. We intend to use this resource when we acquire land and begin to need this suite of tools!
Food Revolution Network is a global education and advocacy organization dedicated to healthy, sustainable, and ethical food systems. Through online summits, resources, and campaigns, it empowers people to make informed food choices, promote regenerative agriculture, and push for systemic change in how food is grown, distributed, and consumed.
Home Building
For around 55k, the Dandelion Housing Project will build you a tiny home on a trailer. You’d pick it up in Vermont and drive it back, but I thought I’d put it here and add more local home builders as I find them.