Linnaea Farm is a 314 acre organic land trust stewarded by five families dedicated
to sustainable agriculture and education, on Cortes Island, B.C.
Organic Market Garden Workshop
Found this year challenging? Come and get some hands on skills to make next year a success! Practical hands on permaculture with Oliver Kellhammer, introduction to animal husbandry, and answers to all your garden questions, plus some tips on becoming a successful market gardener.
Adam Schick has been an organic gardener for the past 18 years and a market gardener Linnaea Farm for 16 of those years. Come glean some wisdom from a Master Gardener!
August 11th ~ 18th
WHERE: Cortes Island, BC
TOPICS COVERED: Sense of Place, phenology, planning & marketing, seed sowing and saving, record keeping, animal husbandry, compost & making the most of soil, pests & weeds, practical permaculture and year round cropping.
The days will be filled with lectures and hands-on training in the field to reinforce and give context to the lessons.
COST: $1400 includes accommodation
Linnaea Farm’s Permaculture Design Certificate course takes place on the gorgeous and wild Cortes Island, a jewel in the Coast Salish Sea. Completing this immersive, hands-on course gives you a Permaculture Institue of North America (PINA) Certificate, and grounds participants in the principles and ethics of Permaculture design. With a theme of creating resilient systems in the face of climate chaos, this course will cover: water systems, food forest design, disaster preparedness, integrated livestock, urban and rural habitats, and so much more. With field trips, guest instructors, multi-media lectures and actual design work ~ this is experiential learning at it’s best!
June 24th 2018 ~ July 7th 2018
Glimpses of Linnaea Farm
Linnaea Farm Tours
Contact us to create the most awesome farm tour for yourself and your group. Price varies depending on time and amount of folks on the tour.
Please call the farm office @ (250) 935-6747
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