HORT 261 Adv Practice Local Food Prod

This course teaches advanced techniques in local food production. The course provides the students with a hands-on experience in managing a complex, organic market garden farming system. Students learn how grow crops, develop crop rotations and integrate livestock to create systems that sustain profitable production and environmental health. Irrigation, cover crops and post-harvest crop management are practiced as is marketing of college farm products. Field trips to local farms are part of the curriculum. 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.