The Grange Farm School would like to extend a HUGE thank you to the Aromas Grange and the Sebastopol Grange who joined Little Lake and Anderson Valley Granges by donating funds to our scholarship program. These Granges are actively empowering the next generation of food producers! We owe so much to our surrounding community and Granges for being the support…
Tuesday February 23, 2016 This is the first installment of my farm journal here at the Grange Farm School. My name is Joshua Sternberg and I’ll be putting thoughts and observations to the page while farming approximately an acre of land in Willits California, a small town filled with aged homesteaders, more recent urban expatriates, political…
It may be wet outside but in California, fire safety is always a priority. At the Grange Farm School, student tents come with a wood stove. When it’s cold (not that often) we burn a lot of wood, resulting in a lot of potential disasters. Today we had Little Lake Grange officer Mike Burgess give a…
Eva King is an over wintering intern at the Grange Farm School It’s winter time at the Grange Farm School and it has been raining non-stop. With California being in a pretty serious drought, I’m not allowed to complain, especially to the farmers. This El Nino is welcomed here and it’s making itself so at…
With new years resolutions just beginning to sink in, we encourage you to add another: to think holistically, act holistically, and manage your land holistically. If you want to learn more about holistic management, there are some really incredible opportunities coming up including more from Holistic Management International, and a collaborative workshop between the Savory…
The Grange Farm School works to improve the future of farming by training the next generation of farmers. We recognize how important community support is in that endeavor, and are constantly stressing the fact that a network is key to success in farming. From the moment of this school’s inception, there has been a herculean amount of help from the…
Over the next 20 years, an estimated 400 million acres of farmland in the US will be up for sale by owners age 65 and older. -The Greenhorns Land is becoming available for the next generation of farmers but with farm equipment, land, and education costs so high, farming is an incredibly daunting field for young…
Remember reading about our “Holistic Struggle with Star Thistle” a few months ago? The Grange Farm School uses Holistic Management principles in decision making, and we recommend it highly to entrepreneurs, land managers, farmers, ranchers, and business owners! Holistic Management International is providing two trainings in whole farm and ranch management at the Grange Farm…
The day before the second graduating class at the Grange Farm School received their certificates, gifts, and parting words of wisdom from staff, friends, family, and community members, the Grange Farm School took a field trip to the Mendocino Coast. There we learned from and herded approximately 400 of Leland Falk’s intensively grazed flock of…
For the past twelve weeks at the Grange Farm School, the students have been involved in raising 120 Red Ranger chickens for meat. They are currently between 3.5 to 5 pounds and look like healthy, happy birds. With daily chores of feeding, cleaning, moving their pens, detangling them from fencing, and herding them through giant stalks…
