Everdale Organic Farm & Learning Centre
Go to the youtube links below to view videos that feature our 2010 OFC participants.
Everdale offers a full-season curriculum-based internship called the Organic Farming certificate program. We also offer a shorter version called the Summer Internship for people who are not able to do the full season program. For information about these programs and how to apply go to this link and download the information package.
Participants will learn in the following ways:
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Farming experience on Everdale’s certified organic farm (OFC – 960 hours; Summer – 550 hours)
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A training curriculum that includes field trips, seminars, special projects and more (OFC – 640 hours; Summer – 200 hours)
The training curriculum is made up of the following activities:
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Field trips. There will be 20-24 full-day field trips to other farms in the region and some related food project sites (this includes six CRAFT SW Ontario days)
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Lectures/seminars. A series of ten lecture/seminars originally developed by the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems at University of California at Santa Cruz. Everdale has borrowed these materials and modified them to fit in to the south-western Ontario context. We gratefully acknowledge the CASFS’s generosity in making their resources available.
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Regular field walks and technical field demonstrations
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Required readings and videos will be assigned for completion during evenings and days off.
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Personal Learning Plan, Skills Checklist, and ongoing evaluations
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Special projects and assignments
Our interns see farming as a way to make positive social and ecological change. These videos show our 2010 OFC interns talking about their personal garden projects. The garden plot projects are a small but important part of Everdale’s extensive internship program curriculum:
Our interns are “practical idealists”. They are getting the training they need to launch successful careers in the local, organic farming movement. Watch these videos and hear what our 2010 interns have to say about what their dream farm might look like:
Evan’s culinary-farming future
Olivia imagines herself as an established farmer
Rob thinks of all the community connections on his future farm
Tom takes you through a virtual tour of his future farm
Unlike other CRAFT internships, Everdale’s OFC and Summer programs are tuition-based. This allows us to offer the types of trainings listed above. For program rates go to this link and download the information package.
Contact: Gavin Dandy, 519-855-4859 x104, gavin at everdale.org www.everdale.org
