Cultivating Success: Growing Future Farmers

Learn how to develop a sustainable small farm

||| FROM KATHRYN MIKULAK for SJC WSU EXTENSION |||

Interested in farming? Not sure how to begin? Do you dream of beginning or expanding your own small farm? The Cultivating SuccessTM series of courses combines workshop and farmer-direct learning experiences to help foster the success of new and existing farms. Cultivating Success helps participants explore the unique advantages available to the small and mid-size farm.

Join us for the first course in the series, Whole Farm Planning to be held on Mondays, 6 to 8:30 p.m., September 19 through December 5, 2022. Offered statewide, the course will be conducted online using the Zoom platform with in-person field trips available in some regions of WA state. In addition, the course will be offered with Spanish language interpretation and facilitation.

Weekly presentations include local growers, organizations, and agriculture professionals with expertise in direct marketing, value-added processing, production planning, agronomy, livestock production, and more. Cultivating Success provides students with the tools necessary to create, develop, or expand a sustainable farm operation.

Cost for the twelve-week course is $200 per farm/family. Scholarships are available for Military Veterans and anyone for whom the course fee is a barrier. Visit https://www.cultivatingsuccesswa.org/courseregistration/p/whole-farm-planning to register online.

For more information on the course, visit cultivatingsuccesswa.org/whole-farm-planning or contact Kate Smith (360) 395-2363, kate.smith@wsu.edu.

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