Are you longing to start your own farm or homestead? Are you trying to engage school children with growing food? Is it the rat race of the corporate world, the isolation from nature, your desire for meaningful work, concern about our environmental legacy, or some other reason that has you thinking about growing food for yourself and others? A thriving organic farm/garden can satisfy all these longings, but it takes preparation and careful planning to bring it into being.
If you are an independent learner who likes to learn by doing, this program is for you. The curriculum will introduce and advance the skills and knowledge needed to establish or run a successful organic farm/garden. The information and skill development will be presented in an engaging and interactive manner, utilizing Internet links, videos and texts used in Organic Growing Classes over the last 12 years. Basic information is necessary, but hands on skills are invaluable and seeing how the whole process works together on an active farm, gives needed perspective.
Here are the details: A Field Day on Cane Creek Farm every other Saturday morning will be focused on discussion and hands on learning. Field Days will start the second week of March through May ninth. A field trip to another farm will be scheduled to offer more perspective and new ideas.
Total cost for the complete program is $500 but the program is subsidized by the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Grant, so that each participant pays only $250 for the program. Tuition is payable by check to Cane Creek Farm, or by PayPal. Send a request for a Paypal invoice to chuckpugh01@gmail.com.
Have some questions? Send us an email at lynn@canecreekfarm.net for more information.
Curriculum topics
- Soil and organic farming
- Plants – reproduction, growing and harvesting
- Organic management – pests, disease, weeds
- Organic management – cover crops, crop rotations, compost
- Crop planning and season extension