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
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