Cultivating Success Course Calendar
Upcoming Courses
December 6, 2024: Is a Small Farm in Your Future?
This virtual workshop is designed to help you explore the development of a small farm enterprise and create a plan of action for achieving your small farm dream!
January 23, 31, February 29, & March 28, 2025: Whole Farm Planning
This essential course will walk you through the steps to prepare a well thought out plan for your land, life, and business. Use a whole systems lens to create a living plan for your farm future, designing for capacity and sustainability.
February 2025: Building a Marketing Strategy
In this four-week workshop, you’ll create a personalized marketing strategy to grow your farm business. You’ll assess your current marketing, examine new strategies, and adapt those strategies to fit your business.
Tuesdays, March 4-April 1, 2025: Small Farm & Ranch Webinar Series
Free webinar series designed to help you access IPM and Pest Alert resources and knowledge.
May 2025: 10 Acres and a Dream
This three-part online workshop is designed to help participants learn how to thrive in a rural setting and make their land ownership dreams come true!
Courses Offered in the Future
2025: Living on the Land
Classes on stewardship for small acreages designed to meet the needs of participants in the region it is offered.
2026: Agricultural Entrepreneurship
This in-depth business planning course covers evaluating resources, planning and research, legal and management issues, marketing strategies, budgets and financial statements and cultivating money resources.
2027: Scratching Below the Surface
This course guides beginning producers through the process of raising poultry for profit. We will cover goals and record keeping, to bird nutrition and housing, egg handling, and meat processing.
2027: Digging Deeper
A course designed for current market gardeners and home gardeners that want to increase their production of fruits, vegetables, and/or herbs for direct and intermediated market sales in Idaho.
2028: Planning for Profit II
More Information to come.
Courses Not Currently Scheduled
A 4-part short course that focuses on what people need to know and do to successfully find land to farm.
Introduction to Succession Planning
This free workshop introduces participants to farm succession planning and the steps involved in a farm or ranch transfer within or outside of the family.
The Cultivating Success™ Farmer Mentor Program encourages beginning farmers/ranchers to work one-on-one with an experienced farmer mentor. Participants receive in-the-field, hands-on experience in production and marketing.
Idaho Cultivating Success™ is brought to you by University of Idaho Extension and UI Small Farms Extension
