Bring Your Farm to the Next Level – Courses

Two Classes to bring your farm to the next level or get started farming

The MSU Farm Business Plan Accelerator is a 100% online opportunity to meet twice weekly with other beginning and aspiring farmers to write a farm business plan that fits YOUR farmsite, markets, skills and goals. Sign up now to join the learning community each Tuesday and Thursday from noon to 1:30pm from June 16 to October 15.

The Farm Business Plan Accelerator converts your lunchbreak into a time for interactive learning via group discussions, think/pair/share, surveys, participant presentations and creation of collaborative items to share. Pre-recorded video lectures provide content and allow class-time for interaction and developing your plan. View the FBP Accelerator schedule to see the full list of farm topics and business planning and decision-making activities. Bring your farm to the next level by developing your business plan!

 

The MSU Organic Farmer Training Program is a 50/50 mix of field and classroom activities over the full 2021 farm season at the 15-acre MSU Student Organic Farm in East Lansing. Apply now! Email msufarm@msu.edu for more information about either program.

The MSU Organic Farmer Training Program is an in-depth immersion into sustainable farming every 9am to 5pm every Monday from March 15 to November 15 at the MSU Student Organic Farm in East Lansing. Participants visit 20+ farms, hear from 15+ guest speakers, gain hands-on farming experience and write a Farm Business Plan. The 2021 OFTP schedule shows the diversity of farming topics. Apply now to join the mix of aspiring, beginning and transitioning farmers, farmworkers, homesteaders and educational gardeners. As 2019 OFTP graduate Bill Coughlin says, “This is an extraordinary program. It’s as good or better than much more expensive intensive training, such as the Stanford Executive Program. I built and managed by first hoophouse and made my first sales to a local restaurant during the 2019 OFTP. This would not have been possible but for your program.” Bring your farm to the next level with the Organic Farmer Training Program!