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Here are some updates with what has been happening on the farm! Application deadline is coming soon, reach out if you’re interested! Also, if you like these photos, follow us on instagram @school_of_adaptive_agriculture
Here are some updates with what has been happening on the farm! Application deadline is coming soon, reach out if you’re interested! Also, if you like these photos, follow us on instagram @school_of_adaptive_agriculture
Stop WWOOFing, Start Farming By James Bording At any young farmer gathering, I’ve heard the same conversation about how people got started in Agriculture play out dozens of times. “How long have you been farming?” “Oh about 3 years, I raised backyard chickens , I took some classes and then I WWOOFed before I…
Scale up? Whoa Nellie! by Michael Foley (farmer, educator & founding member of the School of Adaptive Agriculture) For the last hundred years, farm advisers have been telling farmers they have to scale up. Many farmers agreed, thinking an increase in production would equal an increase in revenue and hence (!) profit. While American farms…
As a farmer, it is hard not to be eager for summer to come. It seems there is so much time in the winter, in the spring it seems like the plants should be growing faster, and all along harvesting roots and leaves, wondering when the fruit will come. As the field crop manager in…
Coming at food through an education in art has allowed me to encounter food as an interplay of texture, color, and flavor outside of more traditional starting points like source and nutritional value or adherence to a specific cultural format. I have conceptually been able to play on ideas of the seasonal as emotional and…
Daniel Spiro continues his interview series with recent graduates from the School of Adaptive Agriculture. High atop the list of reasons for going into this challenging and noble profession of food production is surely a love of good, healthy food. For Sarah Tobias, recent graduate of the SAA, it was this love that propelled her…
James came to the Grange School of Adaptive Agriculture passionate about growing food and educating the next generation of Agricultural Stewards. James studied Sociology at UC Santa Cruz focusing on Environmental Sociology. Upon graduation, he worked as Solar Engineer in Silicon Valley, helping build and design a thin film Solar Fabrication system. James then left…