This year we are excited about the growing season! God has been so good to us. Here in Alabama we are already planting early crops and laying out the gardens for the spring. Our family is particularly enjoying working on our homestead and family gardens around our house, in addition to our market gardens. We are also learning a few new skills, like how to butcher rabbits. With my boys growing up it is a blessing to be able to spend the day working with them and my wife!
We are planning on offering some basic hands-on, agricultural courses based in a Biblical worldview this year at our farm. Info regarding schedule, dates, and signup will be posted soon. If this is something you might be interested in let me know in the comment section. There will be three different types:
Level One: The Backyard Gardener
If you are a beginner or have never grown any of your own food before these classes will help equip you to produce some of your own food. Topics covered may include:
-Soil Agronomy
-Seed Starting
-Garden Planning
-Composting
-Seed Saving
-Herbs
Level Two: The Homesteader
If you have experience growing some of your own food, but are interested in diversifying and eventually producing most of your own food, then these classes will help expand your skills and management abilities. Topics covered may include:
-Poultry
-Fruits
-Field Crops
-Dairy
-Bees
-Food Preservation
Level Three: The Market Farmer
If you have been successful in growing your own food and would like to pursue producing income with your skills, these classes will teach you how to add commercial “cash crops” on top of your self-production. Topics covered may include:
-Food production as a business
-Good Cash Crops: Vegetables, Blueberries, Meat Chickens, Eggs, Pork.
-Marketing
-Record Keeping
-Profitable Management
-Pricing
This is not only something that I would be interested in, but also something that I might be able to arrange a small group to attend!
Great! We will have to have a minimum for each class so getting together a group would be helpful. Hope to see you!
Certainly something I’d be interested in.
Great! We hope you are able to make it this year. Stay on the lookout for date announcements.
A Biblically centered course about cultivating and stewarding the land is of great interest to me. I’d be interested in knowing the dates for the course and seeing if we can make it!
I am glad to hear you are interested! Hopefully we will have the dates and details up soon and I hope to see you at one of the courses!
Noah
I would definitely be interested, however couldn’t make it in person. Would it be possible to offer a recorded version too?
We hope to also produce some video courses as well. Thanks for your interest and please keep our work in your prayers.
Will the 2017 course be in October llike the 2016 was? I would love to attend but I need to check my calendar. Praying for a wonderful conference and that I can attend. Peace and blessings!
I don’t have the schedule done yet but we hope to have it up in a few weeks. We hope you can attend!
Definitely interested let’s us know what the dates are and Lord willing we will be there!
Great! We should have the dates up shortly. Looking forward to seeing you!