Digging Deeper: Developing Your Idaho Market Garden

This advanced production course covers in-depth production skills needed to operate a small-scale market garden, fruit, culinary hear, or cut flower operation. The course covers production topics that include goal setting and record keeping, farm planning, harvesting, washing, and packing.

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Is a Small Farm in Your Future? A Cultivating Success™ Workshop

Interested in starting a small farm in the city, suburbs or country? Wonder what it would take, and if you’re ready? Whether you’re in the planning stages or have just begun, this one day intensive workshop will help you determine what options are available for you, explore potential markets and profitability for different enterprises, network with others and learn what it takes to begin and sustain a small scale farming business. 

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Land Access Course

The Farmland for the Next Generation: Land Access Training Curriculum is intended to educate beginning farmers and ranchers who are seekers from a farm family or tradition in the U.S. or abroad. They may be returning from military service or changing careers. They may have worked or apprenticed on farms or been inspired by urban agriculture or the local food movement. What they all have in common is the desire to make a living on the land.

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Land Stewardship Courses

In many parts of Idaho, people are enjoying rural life just past the edges of metropolitan city centers. But life on a small acreage is not all great views and beautiful sunsets. Whether your goals for your small acreage property are to raise a few livestock animals, create a productive hobby farm or just sit back and appreciate the wide-open spaces, land management issues can bring you back to reality in a hurry. Participants in our Land Stewardship courses gain knowledge, implement best management practices, become more effective land stewards and successfully manage their natural resources.

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Scratching Below the Surface: Idaho Small-Scale Poultry Production

This advanced production course guides producers through the process of raising poultry for profit. The course covers production topics that include goal setting and record keeping, bird nutrition and housing, egg production and handling, and meat processing.

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Whole Farm Planning Course

This course has students take a realistic look at their goals and resources, and helps them evaluate what type of small acreage enterprise is right for them. Students are exposed to various types of farming and ranching systems, guest farmers speak to the class, and field trips are taken to local farms. Students complete a whole farm plan.