Cultivating Success
Last Sunday’s PDN had an article (not available online) about this class being offered at Washington State University. It’s a 14-week extension course taught by Curtis Beus.
“Cultivating Success” is a course for beginning farmers. The current class has 61 people; there's a waiting list of 30. Students range in age from twenty-something to 70.
Curtis Beus said: “We had to turn a lot of people away. I'm thinking about doing this course again in the fall.” The course has been taught four times in the past 13 years, but this is the largest crowd yet.
The class teaches sustainable farming: organic farming practices, grazing and water quality protection, pest and weed management, and budgeting.
In the past few decades most of the farms in this area, especially around Sequim, have turned into malls and housing tracts. It would be nice if small locally-owned farms could make a comeback in Clallam County.
“Cultivating Success” is a course for beginning farmers. The current class has 61 people; there's a waiting list of 30. Students range in age from twenty-something to 70.
Curtis Beus said: “We had to turn a lot of people away. I'm thinking about doing this course again in the fall.” The course has been taught four times in the past 13 years, but this is the largest crowd yet.
The class teaches sustainable farming: organic farming practices, grazing and water quality protection, pest and weed management, and budgeting.
In the past few decades most of the farms in this area, especially around Sequim, have turned into malls and housing tracts. It would be nice if small locally-owned farms could make a comeback in Clallam County.
Labels: Clallam County, Cultivating Success, Curtis Beus, Sequim, Washington State University
posted by Tom Harper at 3:57 PM
9 Comments:
Oh no! Not organic farming! Don't you know that's next to patchouli-smelling, unwashed-hippie, tree-hugging, Godless Communism?
I'm sure the rightwing goon squad this blog has attracted will be extolling the benefits of Capitalist Agro-Business "farming" ...
Green acres is the place for me.
Farm livin' is the life for me.
Land spreadin' out so far and wide
Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside...
Could come in handy when Safeway decides its no longer cost effective to drive food out here.
Hey, with all this organic produce being raised, we could use a farmers market. Like, right in downtown Port Angeles. Maybe one or two days a week we could close off a one block section of downtown PA for a couple hours. People who are shopping at the farmers market will stroll around town and check out all the stores, eat at the downtown restaurants. This could be a gold mine.
Oh, that's right...
Thats right. Your government has decided whats best for you.
And remember, when you question the authorities, the authorities will question you.
Hey...good idea about the Farmer's Market downtown. I'll bet some of the local musicians would perform for minimal fees.
We don't need any stinkin hippies downtown closing off streets, interrupting good commerce. Keep your e-coli, fusarium-laced organic produce up there in the courthouse parking lot. Normal people prefer Safeway produce. Downtown merchants prefer bathed customers, and bathed customers prefer to not breathe the stench of leftist hippies.
Hey Clem or Jim Bob or whatever your name is, why don't you move back to the deep south with the rest of the rednecks.
The irony here will be too much for your thimble size brain to grasp, but the biggest hygiene hazard is the shopping cart handles at supermarkets. Nobody thinks about that, but hundreds of people have had their grubby mitts all over that same handle.
And almost every downtown merchant wants the farmers market to come back downtown, unless you're Edna Petersen doing her Billy Bob Deliverance imitation.
Ah, the goon squad's back!
Hey, rightwing goon squadist, better check under your bed. Rumour has it that unbathed hippies are indulging in illicit drug-taking and free-love under there. Oh, and the Drudge Report had a posting that your basement is harbours an Al Quaida cell, perhaps even Bin Laden himself.
Beware!
Go take a bath...PLEASE...you stink.
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