Enroll Now for Small Farms Online Course Season This Fall and Winter

October 9, 2024/Kacey Deamer

There is always more to learn when starting or expanding your farming operation. If you want to improve your technical or business skills to benefit your farm dreams, then consider joining one of our nearly three dozen online courses during live instruction this upcoming online course season.

The Cornell Small Farms Program is excited to announce that our courses will begin live webinars this fall, including newer additions to our online course suite and more learning opportunities in Spanish. Our growing team of online course instructors includes experienced farmers, extension educators, and agriculture service providers.

Our courses are offered on a user-friendly platform, which grants registrants permanent access to their course content. In our ongoing commitment to equitable access to education, we have maintained tiered pricing for our courses based on household size and income. We also offer scholarships for eligible farmers in New York who face an entry barrier to farming.

Registration is now open for all courses, with live content starting in November for our second block of courses:
• BF 120: Vegetable Production I – From Planning to Planting
• BF 122: Berry Production – Getting Started with Growing and Marketing Berries
• BF 130: Poultry Production – Profiting from Layers, Broilers, Turkeys, and Ducks
• BF 138: Getting Started with Pastured Pigs – Developing a Successful Farm Business with Pigs
• BF 150: Farm Woodlot Management – Assessing the Economic Potential of a Managed Forest
• BF 151: Outdoor Mushroom Cultivation – Growing Mushrooms on Logs, Stumps, and Woodchips
• BF 152: Intro to Maple Syrup Production – Sugaring for Profit
• BF 170: Cut Flower Production – Introduction to the Business of Flower Farming
• BF 210: Stress Reduction for Farmers – Strategies for Streamlining Your Farm

Our program offers nearly three dozen online courses to help farmers improve their technical and business skills. Experienced farmers, extension educators, and agriculture service providers guide students through course content, including weekly live webinars, videos, and resources.

The bulk of the course happens on your own time, with discussions, readings, and assignments in Teachable, our online course platform. To add to the experience, webinars will be woven into the interface of the course for a dedicated time slot each year to allow you to meet on a weekly basis to learn from presenters and ask questions in real-time. If you miss one, they are always recorded and posted for later viewing.

You can browse all of our course offerings on our website.

Farm Ops Project Offering Scholarships to New York Veterans Interested in Agriculture

Farm Ops, our military veteran project, facilitates veteran access to agricultural education and training. Farm Ops just updated their veteran scholarship webpage and is offering scholarship for events occurring throughout the state and for the upcoming Cornell Small Farms online courses (Fall 2024 – Winter 2025). Check out the Farm Ops veteran scholarship webpages.

Kacey Deamer

Kacey is the Communications Manager for the Cornell Small Farms Program. In this role, she manages all storytelling and outreach across the program’s website, social media, e-newsletter, magazine and more. Kacey has worked in communications and journalism for more than a decade, with a primary focus on science and sustainability.
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