Workshops: Pick Fresh, Create Fun, Hands-On Experiences
Our workshops invite you into the field to pick fresh, local ingredients and create something fun, like salsa, floral arrangements, and red chile ristras, along with winter workshops celebrating New Mexico’s holiday traditions. Coming soon, we’ll also be offering cooking classes and canning workshops!
Flower Arranging Workshop
Pick sunflowers, zinnias, marigold, cosmos, and local wildflowers!
Join us for a unique experience where you pick your own flowers from our field to use in a guided workshop that teaches the art of flower arranging. Begin by picking vibrant sunflowers, zinnias, marigolds, and cosmos. Then, choose a container to embellish or use craft paper and ribbon to create a classic bouquet. We will also provide additional fillers to complement your bouquet design.
This is a perfect opportunity to learn the fundamentals of floral design and composition. We also use this as an opportunity to guide you through growing these various flowers in New Mexico and harvesting techniques.
Our picturesque fields provide excellent photo opportunities with stunning views of farm fields and the Sandia Mountains. Whether you are on a solo adventure, with friends, a date, as a group activity, or for family fun, this class offers something for everyone. The session will last approximately an hour and includes all necessary supplies, guidance, and a floral arrangement to take home.
Schedule: Saturdays & Sundays 11 am & 1 pm
Price: $35 per person
Includes all supplies, instruction, and flower arrangement to take home.
Chips & Salsa making workshop
Learn how to make your own chips salsa from scratch!
Pick ingredients from our fields to make your own chips and salsa! Learn to prepare both from scratch in outdoor kitchen. Embark on a unique experience at Big Jim Farms where you can delve into our fields to handpick fresh ingredients for creating your own chips and salsa from scratch.
Harvest everything you need including tomatoes, peppers, cilantro, blue corn, and more. After picking everything from our fields you will then head to our outdoor kitchen to craft your personalized creation. Whether you prefer your salsa spicy or mild, roasted, blended, or chopped, the choice is yours. Not only will you make your own salsa, you will also make your own chips by using the blue corn picked and grinding it to flour to make blue corn tortilla chips.
For just $35, you'll receive all ingredients, necessary supplies, guidance, and the delicious chips and salsa in a mason jar to take home. Immerse yourself in the fields where the produce was grown and turn it into something special.
Nestled in the picturesque Rio Grande Valley with the stunning Sandia Mountains and flourishing farms as your scenic backdrop, this experience is suitable for all ages, families, groups, team-building activities, and more.
Schedule: Saturdays & Sundays 10 am & 12 pm
Price: $35 per person
Includes all supplies, instruction, and jar of salsa to take home.
Red Chile Ristra Making Workshop
Learn how to make your own Red Chile Ristra at Big Jim Farms!
At Big Jim Farms, we have been growing the best green and red chile for over a century. We opened up our U-Pick experience as a place where the community can come together and see where it all comes from, how it is grown, and a chance to do it themselves.
We love to see the traditions of our New Mexican heritage continued through the U-Pick experience and are proud to offer an extension of this through our Red Chile Ristra workshop. Learn about the history of the Red Chile Ristra, Chile in New Mexico, and how to make your own start to finish. You get to take home your beautiful creation at the end of your class and many memories too.
Schedule: Saturdays & Sundays 11 am & 1 pm
Price: $40 per person
Includes all supplies, instruction, and ristra to take home