Farming + Access to Farmland
Type: 9 month Farm School / tuition (see below)
School: TFN Farm School (Institute of Sustainable Food Systems)
Location: Delta, Greater Vancouver, BC
Have you ever wanted to learn to grow your own food, be self-sufficient, start
a farm business, raise pastured animals ethically, grow herbs for medicine,
care for an orchard, build small farm structures, hone
some welding skills,
install solar panels, drive and repair a tractor and raise bees?
The TFN Farm School is a 9 months hands-on program that will teach you those
skills and infinitely more. The program is part-time (Thursday-Saturday) from
March 10-November 10. After completion, students get the opportunity to get a
small piece of land on the farm (incubator plot) for up to 3 years to grow
their own micro-farm while benefiting from technical support, the use of
equipment and access to the farm’s market channels.
Set on 20 acres of traditional Tsawwassen First Nation land, the TFN Farm
School is a program of the Institute of Sustainable Food Systems at Kwantlen
Polytechnic University. You will learn with experienced farmers, professors and
tradespeople with mastery in their respective field. Courses include Market
Crop Production, Soils, Water & Compost Management, Plant Science, Pest
Management, Animal Husbandry, Fruit Production, Farm Business Planning, Farm
Technology, Indigenous Food Systems. The certified organic Farm School boasts a
4-acre market garden, a 2 acre mixed fruit orchard and berries, a medicinal
native plant garden, a solar powered walk-in cooler, 2 large greenhouse and
pastured hogs, chickens and ducks.
For additional information please see the TFN Farm School website:
http://www.kpu.ca/tfnfarm
Please send all inquiries to:
tfs@kpu.ca
*Registration will close when all the limited spots available are taken
