Get your hands dirty through our classes offered at our Alabama Foundations for Farming Training Center!
In-Depth Training for Trainers:
This is specifically for people who feel called to impact others by hosting their own trainings in their own community or through existing mission or ministry work. This is ‘training for trainers’ and will be limited to a small group so that we will be able to cater it to the specific needs and situations of the students attending. We will need a minimum of 5 adult attendees and maximum of 10. We plan to offer these training multiple times throughout the year and students will need to attend one of the subsequent scheduled trainings if the registration for this training is too small or full. Follow up support will be available as graduates host their own trainings in the coming months.
Spring 2024 Training Dates:
March 17-21
April 8-12
May 6-10
Fall 2024 Training Dates:
Other Events:
June 28th – 29th, 2024, The Modern Homesteading Conference, Idaho
What You Will Learn
We will be training students to teach others from a Gospel-based Biblical worldview using the Well-Watered Garden training curriculum 12-lesson program.
By the end of the training you will be able to:
- Communicate how the gospel relates to agriculture.
- Understand what it takes to have soil that produces abundant crops naturally
- Manage your garden in a way that produces joy and makes a profit.
- Use eight simple questions to create an easy, but effective garden plan.
- Clear a spot for your garden without plowing or tilling
- Make thermal compost and natural organic fertilizers
- Layout garden beds with a simple system that allows for ease of management and space for a variety of crops.
- Plant seeds or transplants with a simple spacing system that is easy to follow and remember.
- Care faithfully for your garden with three simple tasks.
- Share your faith in Jesus through your garden.
- Train others in what you have just learned.
We will also be covering more in-depth topics like:
- Scaling up for homestead-level food security
- Growing for markets
- Alternative (off-grid) energy
- Backyard chickens
- Home dairy operations