Event

Farm School

Announcing Farm School 2012! 18 Reasons, Garden for the Environment, Bi-Rite Farm, and Freewheelin Farm are delighted to offer the opportunity to get your hands dirty during this ten session immersion course held May through September 2012.

Farm School is geared for adults who want to learn about the life, economics, and labor of small scale organic farming. The course includes five lectures at 18 Reasons and five full farming days at the Bi-Rite Farm in Sonoma. The lectures will take you through the logistics and business of starting a rural or urban farm, and the farm sessions will put you on-site digging, planting, weeding and harvesting.

Instructors
Simon Richards, Bi-Rite Market's farmer and head produce buyer will lead the farming days. Darryl Wong, farmer at Freewheelin Farm in Santa Cruz, will be the lead teacher for the Wednesday lectures. Hannah Shulman, Garden Education Coordinator at Garden for the Environment and Rosie Branson Gill, Program Director at 18 Reasons, will co-facilitate the program.

Price:
$375-$475 sliding scale.
Please pay what you are able.
If you would like to set up a payment plan, please contact Rosie at rosie@18reasons.org

Class size limited to twelve.

Dates, Times, and Locations:
To qualify you must be able to attend all ten sessions.
Wednesday lectures are 6:30-9PM at 18 Reasons.
Saturday farm days are 8:30AM-3PM at Bi-Rite Farm.

May 2+12
June 13+16
July 14+18
August 11+15
September 5+8

Transportation and food
18 Reasons will help organize carpooling logistics but will not offer transportation to Sonoma. Students are responsible for their own food and water. We will provide light snacks on farming days.

This promises to be a extremely fun and in-depth introduction to farming!