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Cultivating Success™ Courses Starting Soon in ID

Cultivating Success™ Courses Starting Soon in WA

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Featured Farmer Mentors:
Tom and Cheryl Kammerzell
of Maple K Farms

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WA State Programs for
Latino & Hmong Farmers

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Contact for WA:
Kristy Ott
509-335-3385
kristy_ott@wsu.edu

Contact for ID:
Amanda Snyder
(208) 885-2049
amsnyder@uidaho.edu

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About

• The Cultivating Success™ Program offers a series of courses that provide beginning and existing farmers with the planning and decision-making tools, production skills and support necessary to develop a sustainable small acreage farm.
   

• Cultivating Success™ connects the student with the farmers and exposes them to real world situations through a community-based, experiential approach.
   

• Whether you are an academic student or community member - Cultivating Success™ provides educational opportunities for anyone interested in the knowledge and skills you need to be a successful small acreage farmer or rancher.
   

• Courses are offered in various locations Washington and Idaho, to audiences that include academic students, new and experienced farmers, immigrant farmers, and agricultural professionals.

Coming Soon...View the Cultivating Success™ Program Overview PowerPoint Presentation Here

Goals of Cultivating Success™

The goal of Cultivating Success™ is
to create and implement educational programs to increase the number and foster the success
of sustainable small acreage farmers and ranchers.

To accomplish this goal, a collaborative team from
the University of Idaho, Washington State University
and Rural Roots have developed a community-based education program in Sustainable Small Acreage Farming and Ranching

Courses are available to community members for Continuing Educations Units and to academic students.  Course can be taken individually or a series of five courses for a Certificate in Sustainable Small Acreage Farming and Ranching.

Cultivating Success™ will help you learn what it takes to have a successful small agricultural enterprise, and help you to acquire many of the skills to make that happen. 

Whether you're interested in sheep, chickens, berries, asparagus, goats, vegetables, herbs, potted plants, or value-added products, this unique program will help you make your small farm dream come true!

About the Cultivating Success™ Certificate

Three Certificate Options are Available:

1.  Degree-seeking students enrolled at either Washington State University or University of Idaho may sign up for classes through the regular channels are eligible to receive the Certificate of Completion in Sustainable Small Acreage Farming and Ranching.  This is a 15-18 unit certificate to give students a concentrated focus in Sustainable Small Acreage Farming and Ranching.

Click here or scroll down to view the Academic Requirements for a Certificate of Completion.

2 & 3.  Community members, not enrolled in a degree program, can sign up for two certificate options, either a Level I or Level II Certificate of Proficiency in Sustainable Small Acreage Farming & Ranching (SSAFR).

SSAFR Certificate of Completion Level I requirements:

 - Sustainable Small Farming and Ranching OR Agricultural Entrepreneurship

 - Two other courses from two separate modules

 - Completion of an Internship or Mentorship from the Farm-Based Learning module

OR

- Sustainable Small Farming and Ranching AND Agricultural Entrepreneurship

- One other course

- Completion of a course from the On Farm Learning module

SSAFR Certificate of Completion Level II requirements:

Same as Level I + two additional Cultivating Success™ courses