Calypso Farmer Training Program in Alaska

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 Farmer Training Program in Alaska – Now accepting 2018 applications!

Start a Farm. Run a Homestead. Build Community. Get the skills and hands-on experience you need to make it happen.

Calypso Farm and Ecology Center’s 5 month, residential Farmer Training Program in Alaska immerses participants in all aspects of farming: production, creativity and business planning.

• Gain the farm production skills necessary for farming success: building healthy soil, greenhouse growing, irrigation, composting, animal husbandry, field planning, cultivation, harvest, CSA operations, farm infrastructure, farm equipment use, and using your working body safely.

• Weekly Whole Farm Planning sessions lead you through the process of building a comprehensive business plan for a future farm, from choosing land and areas of production to marketing and creating a budget. 

• Build creativity and homesteading skills through exposure to green wood carving, birch bark, food preservation, blacksmithing, wool processing, construction, printmaking, and more.

• Have your own special interests? Calypso’s staff will work with you to gear the program to your specific learning goals.  Participants will have the opportunity to be involved in Calypso’s farm-based education programs, explore value-added product production, and work with Calypso’s food justice initiatives. 

In 2018, Calypso is offering a Beginning Farmer’s Bonus; participants who completes the entire program (including their Whole Farm Plan) are eligible for a refund of up to 50% of the program cost (materials fee excluded) at the end of the season.  

College credit for this program is available through the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. 

For full program information and application guidelines for the Calypso Beginning Farmer Training Program in Alaska please visit: https://www.calypsofarm.org/education/farmer-training-program/ 

We look forward to hearing from you! 

Hillary King

Community Outreach & Fundraising

Calypso Farm and Ecology Center

PO BOX 106, Ester, AK 99725
(907)451-0691   www.calypsofarm.org

Learn about other beginning farmer training programs and educational opportunities on beginningfarmers.org at: https://www.beginningfarmers.org/beginning-farmer-training-programs/