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Dig Deeper: Small Farm Education



This course is designed to help small acreage landowners care for their land sustainably. Course topics include:

  • What Do You Have and What Do You Want?

  • What Can You Do?

  • Selecting Farm Equipment

  • Enterprise Budgets

  • What to do About Weeds

  • Water Quality,

  • Market & Organic Gardening

  • Feeds and Feeding

  • Pasture Establishment and Renovation

  • Your Living Soil

  • Caring for Your Animals

  • Grazing Management and much more!

Instructors: University of Idaho Extension educators, specialists, class alumni and guests.

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Read about Living on the Land Landowner Impacts in 2010

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What is Cultivating Success™?
  • 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.

View complete course schedules for Idaho here

Cultivating Success is a collaboration between:

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University of Idaho Student Organic Farm