HORT 261A Adv Practice Local Food Production Lab

This course represents the lab section of the course, Advanced Practice in Local Food Production. Students work in groups and learn how to grow crops, develop crop rotations, and integrate livestock into a complex market garden farming system, irrigation, cover crops and post-harvest crop management are practiced as is marketing of college farm products. Recommended: Farm management skills and completion of courses in sustainable agriculture (e.g. HORT 230); pest management (e.g. CSS 240); irrigation systems (e.g. AG 250); small livestock production; sustainable small farm management.