Website Building for Beginning Farmers – MD

Posted on March 2, 2019 by Taylor in Beginning Farmers, Business, Workshops // 0 Comments

Establishing your Farm’s Online Presence:
Website Building for Beginning Farmers Workshop in Denton, Maryland

Monday, March 11, 2019 – Three 2-hour time slots available between 10:00 am – 5:00 pm in Denton, MD

Website Building for Beginning Farmers Workshop: Join farmer and designer Lauren Giordano of Schoolhouse Farmhouse for a workshop designed to help you establish your farm’s online presence. This workshop is for farmers that do not yet have a website but do have an established farm or a farm that is beginning to sell this year.

Three 2-hour time slots are available between 10:00 am – 5:00 pm. Some pre-work gathering content for your website is required prior to the workshop. Website Building for Beginning Farmers attendees will leave with a live website and the knowledge to edit, update, and expand your website.

To ensure success building a website during the workshop, prior to the workshop, participants must:

Before February 25th, email Lauren a few high-resolution photographs of yourself, your farm, and your operation; your farm logo in a .jpg format; and a description of your farm operation, mission statement, or “about us” statement. Lauren’s contact information will be provided to registrants.
Sign up for a free Squarespace trial account the day of the workshop

$15 Beginner Farmer Program Trainees / $20 FHCASA Members / $40 Non-members

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Location: Caroline County Public Library, 100 Market Street, Denton, MD 21629

Questions? Contact Niamh Shortt at niamh@futureharvestcasa.org

The Website Building for Beginning Farmers Workshop is offered by the Foodshed Field School from the Chesapeake Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture (CASA). CASA offers farmer education on the latest innovations in sustainable growing. It also provides programming for farmers’ customers – chefs, wholesalers, grocery stores, individual consumers – on how and where to source sustainably and locally grown food. Our programs range from introductory to advanced, and come in a variety of formats: panel discussions, field days, intensives, workshops, and even a year-long, intensive Beginner Farmer Training Program.

The field school begins each year with our annual winter conference, and then continues throughout the year, throughout the region: Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware, and the District of Columbia. Five of the seven topic tracks covered at the conference are continued in the field. Below is our list of tracks:

Sustainable fruit and vegetable production
Sustainable livestock production
Business planning for farms and foodpreneurs
Made Local: workshops about value-added products, like jams, charcuterie and more
Sourcing Local: workshops for chefs and consumers

Visit our current listing of field programs here. All programming and the winter conference are open to the public; members receive steep discounts on fees and registration.