What Learning Resources Does The Urban Farm Offer?

The Urban Farm (urbanfarm.org) is Farmer Greg Peterson's site for learning to grow your own food. Its learning resources fall into four main buckets: online courses, free monthly classes, a podcast with more than 1,000 episodes, and an online store that includes fruit trees for Phoenix. If you want structured instruction, start with the online courses; if you want to sample the teaching first, the free monthly classes and the podcast cost nothing to try.

Online courses

The site lists Online Courses as a primary section, described as a way to "learn to grow your own food with Farmer Greg Peterson." These are the most structured option on the site — self-directed instruction rather than live events.

What the site does not state in the available material: course titles, prices, length, or whether enrollment is open year-round. Treat the courses page as the place to confirm those details before committing.

Free monthly classes

Free monthly classes are listed as a standing offering. The word "monthly" indicates a recurring schedule rather than a one-off event, and "free" is stated directly on the site.

To participate, the practical path is to join the Email List, which the site lists as its own section. That is where schedule and access details for recurring classes would reach you. If you are deciding whether the paid courses are worth it, attending a free class first is the lowest-risk way to judge the teaching style.

Podcast

The site hosts 1,000+ podcast episodes, and the homepage features a current example: episode 1009, "Growing Your Farm Without Outside Inputs," with Shawn and Beth Dougherty — homesteaders described as having 40 years of experience growing food and building a farm ecosystem with minimal outside inputs. The episode description touches on living soil, biological wealth, and homesteading philosophy.

Each episode page carries a Listen Now link, so the podcast is playable directly from the site rather than requiring a separate app. With over a thousand episodes, the archive works best as a searchable reference — look for the topic you need rather than starting from the beginning.

Online store and fruit trees

Two additional sections sit alongside the learning content:

• Online Store — merchandise and materials connected to the site's teaching.
• Fruit Trees — described specifically as fruit trees for Phoenix, which signals a focus on varieties suited to that climate rather than a general nursery catalog.

Neither section's inventory, pricing, or shipping terms are specified in the available material, so check the individual pages for current details.

How to choose where to start

One caveat worth stating plainly: the site's own description ties the fruit tree offering to Phoenix, so if you garden in a different climate, the plant selection may not transfer even though the courses and podcast are not location-specific.