Course schedule Good Earth Farm SchooL Five research

Debbie Ortman (safefood@cp.duluth.mn.us)
Thu, 21 Jan 1999 11:34:15 -0800

>Good Earth Farm School
>1702 Mountain View Road
>Buena Vista, Virginia 24416
>Phone-Fax: 540-261-8775
>E-mail: goodearth@rockbridge.net
>
>Press Release, for immediate publication and posting:
>
>FARM SCHOOL OPENING IN THE
>SHENANDOAH VALLEY
>
>Good Earth Farm, Buena Vista, Virginia, in partnership with Good Earth
>Publications, is pleased to announce the opening of its farm school and
>research internship program. Andy Lee and Patricia Foreman are the
>co-directors.
>
>Five research internships are available in 1999. Internships focus on
>free-range poultry, organic market gardening, applied permaculture and
>ecological farm design, intensive rotational grazing and composting. A
>combination of hands-on learning, self-designed study and professional
>workshops ensures an exciting, well-rounded educational experience.
>Internships run from March to December and include housing, food grown
>on the farm, and a weekly stipend. College credits may be available from
>participating colleges and universities.
>
>During 1999 the Good Earth Farm School will host weekend and week-long
>courses in house-building, market gardening and greenhouse fish farming,
>chicken tractors and free range poultry, applied permaculture and
>ecological farm design.
>
>The inaugural course, March 1 to 6, is Designing and Building the
>Unplugged Permaculture Cottage. Participants will learn how to plan and
>construct a simple, inexpensive and easy to build house. They will also
>help design and build a freestanding greenhouse.
>
>On April 9-11, students will spend an intensive weekend with Andy Lee
>and Michael LaChance learning how to Design and Create a Profitable,
>Organic Market Garden and Permaculture Greenhouse.
>
>On May 26-29 course attendees will learn about Permanent Agriculture;
>Designing Our Farms for a Future That Matters, with Joel Salatin,
>Preston Sullivan and Andy Lee. Joel is the author of Pastured Poultry
>Profits, Salad Bar Beef, and You Can Farm. He and his family own
>Polyface Farm where they raise poultry, beef, pork, rabbits and
>vegetables to sell to nearly 400 customers. Course participants will
>tour Polyface Farm. Preston Sullivan, Ph.D., Agronomy, is a certified
>trainer in Holistic Management and technical specialist at ATTRA in
>Fayetteville, Arkansas.
>
>>From June 24 to 26 is Chicken Tractors and Free Range Turkeys. Andy Lee
>and special guest Ann Fannatico, poultry specialist at ATTRA, will
>present free-range and producer’s cooperative models. Students will
>learn how to design and build a profitable poultry enterprise on their
>own land. This course is being repeated August 26-28, and October 28-30.
>
>August 9 to 14, HOLISTIC MANAGEMENT, Preston Sullivan, ATTRA.
>
>Good Earth Farm is the 41-acre research and development arm of Good
>Earth Publications. It is nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge
>Mountains just 6 miles from historic Lexington, Virginia. The farm
>school’s focus is to help people become more self-reliant through
>enabling them to produce their own food and shelter. Good Earth Farm
>raises heritage breeds of free-range chickens and turkeys, pastured
>Tamworth pigs and Boer meat goats, as well as market gardens. The farm
>sells all of its products to local families. A 3600 square foot former
>sheep barn will soon house a training space, commercial kitchen,
>bathrooms, and a USDA inspected poultry processing facility.
>
>Farm and training director, Andy Lee, majored in communications at
>Goddard College and is a graduate of the Permaculture Institute in
>Australia with a focus in ecological design and sustainable systems. He
>is the author of BACKYARD MARKET GARDENING; the Entrepreneur’s Guide to
>Selling What You Grow. He and Patricia Foreman are co-authors of CHICKEN
>TRACTOR, The Permaculture Guide to Happy Hens and Healthy Soil as well
>as the upcoming TURKEY TRACTOR, The Grower’s Gobbler Guide.
>
>Patricia Foreman has undergraduate degrees from Purdue University in
>genetics and nutrition, and animal sciences. She holds a Masters in
>Public Administration from Indiana University and a PD in Pharmacy and
>is a Fulbright Scholar. Pat has traveled extensively throughout the
>world as a primary health care trainer for WHO, USAID and FDA.
>
>Interested persons can call (540) 261-8775 between 9 and 5 EST for
>course descriptions and internship application guidelines.
>
> Good Earth Farm School
>1702 Mountain View Road, Buena Vista, Virginia 24416
>Phone-Fax: 540-261-8775, E-mail: goodearth@rockbridge.net
>
>Please Add the Following Courses to Your Calendar of Events for 1999:
>
>March 1 to December 15, 1999: Research internships in free range
>poultry, market gardening, applied permaculture, ecological design and
>holistic farm and ranch management. Andy Lee, Good Earth Farm School,
>Buena Vista, Virginia 540-261-8775 email: goodearth@rockbridge.net
>
>March 1 to 6: Designing and Building the Unplugged Permaculture Cottage.
>Andy Lee, Good Earth Farm School, Buena Vista, Virginia, 540-261-8775
>email: goodearth@rockbridge.net
>
>April 9 to 11: Design and Create a Profitable, Organic Market Garden and
>Permaculture Greenhouse. Michael LaChance and Andy Lee, Good Earth Farm
>School, Buena Vista, Virginia, 540-261-8775
>email:goodearth@rockbridge.net
>
>May 26 to 29: PERMANENT AGRICULTURE; Designing Our Farms for a Future
>That Matters. Andy Lee, Preston Sullivan and Joel Salatin, Good Earth
>Farm School, Buena Vista, Virginia, 540-261-8775 email:
>goodearth@rockbridge.net
>
>June 24 to 26: CHICKEN TRACTORS and FREE RANGE TURKEYS. Andy Lee, Good
>Earth Farm School, Buena Vista, Virginia, 540-261-8775 email:
>goodearth@rockbridge.net
>
>July 9 to 10: Polyface Intensive Discovery Seminar, Joel Salatin,
>Polyface Farm, Swoope, Virginia. Call Acres USA for information at
>504-889-2100 email: goodearth@rockbridge.net
>
>July 23 to 24: Polyface Intensive Discovery Seminar, Joel Salatin,
>Polyface Farm, Swoope, Virginia, Call Acres USA for information
>504-889-2100 email: goodearth@rockbridge.net
>
>August 9 to 16, HOLISTIC MANAGEMENT, Preston Sullivan, ATTRA, call Andy
>Lee Good Earth Farm School, Buena Vista, Virginia 540-261-8775 email:
>goodearth@rockbridge.net
>
>August 26 to 28 and again October 28 to 30: CHICKEN TRACTORS and FREE
>RANGE TURKEYS. Andy Lee, Good Earth Farm School, Buena Vista, Virginia
>540-261-8775 Email: goodearth@rockbridge.net
>
>--
>Good Earth Publications
>Good Earth Farms
>Pat Foreman and Andy Lee
>1702 Mountain View Road
>Buena Vista, Virginia 24416 USA
>Phone and fax: (540) 261-8775
>EMail: goodearth@rockbridge.net
>
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