The Growing Growers: Starting a Sustainable Vegetable Farm online course was created in 2022 to compliment on-farm, hands-on agricultural learning. Throughout the course, participants will learn the necessary skills for starting and maintaining sustainable specialty crop farms within or around urban areas. The curriculum focuses on small to medium-scale sustainable vegetable farming practices typical for the central U.S.

The course is broken up into 12 modules:
  • plant propagation
  • production planning
  • soils
  • crop production
  • microclimate modification
  • postharvest handling and food safety
  • irrigation
  • equipment
  • integrated pest management
  • marketing
  • farm management
  • farm start-up
The course is self-paced (asynchronous), costs $200, and is available to registrants for 12-months beginning the day that you sign up. Currently this is a non-college credit course, however, a for-credit option is coming soon.

*A more advanced and farm finances focused course is available here: https://www.agmanager.info/events/finances-and-farm-online-class

Online course Scholarships available 

Through the Extension Foundation Project titled "Expanding the Growing Growers Farm Apprenticeship Model Across Kansas & Beyond" Growing Growers is able to provide scholarships to access the online course for participants in Kansas and Missouri through September 2024.

If you're interested please contact us at [email protected]