Posted on December 1, 2022
Enjoy listening to this Farmer Podcast Club episode! Creating a fibre community with Kathryn Laframboise – The Rural Woman Podcast Released July 22, 2022 Kathryn is a rookie fibre farmer living on Treaty One land. Alongside her husband, she tends to 20 acres and nearly one hundred lives varying from ducks and geese to horses
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Are you an aspiring farmer looking to gain experience on a diversified farm? Are you wanting to learn about raising pastured livestock, including Plains Bison? Backwoods Buffalo Ranch is offering a unique farming apprenticeship; join their team! About the Farm Backwoods Buffalo Ranch is owned and operated by Chad and Laurie Trigg, a Metis family
...Continue reading →Posted on November 28, 2022
Are you an aspiring farmer looking for a unique opportunity to learn about agritourism, pastured poultry, and a farrow-to-finish kunekune pigs? If you want to grow your own food, interface with the public, and participate in culinary wizardry, then 350 Farms might be the apprenticeship for you. About the Farm 350 Farms is a 160
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The 2023 UBC Farm Practicum in Sustainable Agriculture is now accepting applications! The UBC Farm Practicum in Sustainable Agriculture is a six-month experiential learning program designed for aspiring farmers, environmental educators, gardeners, and students interested in applying knowledge about sustainable agriculture and food systems. Students bring a diversity of backgrounds and life experience to the practicum. Our program graduates share a vision of livelihoods and lifestyles
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Registration is now open for the Farm Resilience Mentorship Program (FaRM)! Network and learn alongside other farmers in this free and flexible peer-to-peer program. FaRM provides free resources, mentorship, and peer-to-peer learning and networking opportunities in these three Beneficial Management Practices (BMP) streams: Advanced Nitrogen Management Advanced Grazing Systems Cover Cropping FaRM is a comprehensive
...Continue reading →Posted on November 20, 2022
Are you an aspiring farmer looking for hands-on farming experience on an ecological farm? Are you interested in organic farming, homesteading practices, food education, and collaborative approaches to farming? Good Note Community Farm is looking for a self-starter farm apprentice starting this spring to join their team. About the Farm Good Note Community Farm is
...Continue reading →Posted on November 8, 2022
Spend your summer with the pigs, cows, and chickens at Green Beach Farm & Food on the beautiful prairie near Strathclair MB. A farm job and a great learning experience with an opportunity to be out on the land interacting everyday with nature. ABOUT GREEN BEACH FARM & FOOD Green Beach Farm & Food is
...Continue reading →Posted on November 2, 2022
Are you an aspiring farmer looking to gain experience on a vegetable farm? Are you interested in learning organic farming management? Sundog Organic Farm is offering a unique apprenticeship; join their team! About the Farm Both Jenny and James have a heritage of market gardening that extends to their families in the Netherlands. Farming is literally
...Continue reading →Posted on November 2, 2022
Are you an aspiring farmer looking to gain experience on a mixed, long-time-organic farm? Are you wanting to learn about a mixed livestock operation and heritage breeds? First Nature Farms is offering a unique apprenticeship; join their team! About the Farm First Nature Farms is surrounded by land held within ecological reserves of the Nature Conservancy
...Continue reading →Posted on October 25, 2022
Photo by Natasha As part of the Blackfoot Phenology for Farmers course, a group of farmers, growers, and food lovers across many Indigenous territories and ecosystems have committed to one year of active ecological observation based on the Blackfoot lunar calendar. Students pick a study site in their area and visit it often in order
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