The Climate Farm School courses are immersive on-farm educational experiences with supporting online content and connection to a global regenerative agriculture network. The courses are hosted in partnership with Terra.do and host farm sites, listed below.
Goals of the course:
- Empower participants to make climate-positive changes in their food behaviors
- Extend knowledge from leading farm-innovators practicing regenerative agriculture to a wider universe of people, whether they are engaging in regenerative agriculture as producers, consumers, agtech professionals, or other roles within the food system
- Build a strong and global community of farmers, advocates, policymakers, researchers, entrepreneurs and consumers who are informed about the climate connections to the food system and support each other to take necessary, transformative, collective actions to increase adaptive capacity and mitigation potential of farms, both on land and at sea.
- Work towards the program mission of converting millions of acres of farmland to regenerative, carbon sequestering, locally-controlled agroecosystems.
Farm sites
Course Overview (4 week course)
On-Farm Sample Daily Schedule
*Sample schedule is just that: a sample. Some days might have less structured activities and more independent time, while at least a few days will include options for more intense, full workdays to give a sense of what it's actually like to work on and maintain a vibrant diversified farming operation.
**Note on remote/flexible participation: The full value of the experience, for both farmers and participants, is best captured through the on farm living/working component. Open lines of communication with farmers, facilitators, and fellow participants will be established before, during, and after the core course experience. Please email [email protected] for any questions about personal modifications requested or accessibility needs.
Online Course Materials
Curriculum Outline
- Topic 1: The Food-Climate Nexus: how is climate influencing food/farming, and vice versa? What is the landscape and climate mitigation potential of regenerative ag?
- Topic 2: Short history of global agriculture and climate-friendly food policy
- Topic 3: Soil Health 101 (Principles and the Soil-Climate Link)
- Topic 4: Soil Health: Principles into Practice. Focus on building soil carbon