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                                            Educational Farm

 

At FoodWaves’ non-profit, education-based partner farm, Converging Creeks Farm (Colton, OR), we offer the following opportunities to learn how to grow, eat, prepare, and preserve fresh, nutritious, local, seasonal, and sustainable produce:

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NOTE: Please do not come to the farm unless you have communicated with Nathan, thanks.

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If interested or want learn more, please e-mail Nathan McFall, Food Production Director, at nathan@foodwaves.org or text him at (503) 830-5164.

 

  • Farm Tours

 

Plan a day to tour a Small-Acreage, Organic Market Farm. A master farmer will walk the farm with your group and discuss the farm’s history, layout, structures, practices, micro-cliimate, market, as well as, its struggles and successes. Ask questions. If you want, stay and volunteer. Tour takes approximately 1-2 hours depending on what you want to learn. Limited parking. Not accessible by buses. Groups usually arrive in vans and/or cars.

 

  • Workshops

 

Plan an event where a small group can learn about organic farming techniques through hands-on experiences. FoodWaves is willing to work with you and your interests to find an appropriate topic(s) to meet the needs of your group. Master farmers will develop a lesson plan based on real day-to-day organic farm activities.

 

For example, learn how to FoodWaves seeds, singulates, and transplants through hands-on experience by learning/working alongside a master farmer.

 

Also, please see calendar to discover if any events have been planned that you may want to join.

 

  • Train the Trainers

 

If you have already established an educational garden at your site, then organize a group of club members, staff, parents, and/or garden volunteers to learn how to garden like an organic farmer! 

 

As stated earlier, FoodWaves is limited to how much off-campus training they can do because of amount a time/funds and based on the fact that they are actual farmers! So, visit our farm! There is so much to learn, so many ideas to share, and so many questions that can be asked as we work together!

 

  • Internships

 

Go to the “GET Involved” tab and click on “Small-Acreage Market Farm Intern Program” to learn about our options to GET Educated through volunteering, thanks!

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  • Volunteering

 

Go to the “GET Involved” tab and click on “Volunteer” to learn about our options to GET Educated through volunteering, thanks!

 

  • WWOOFing

 

Go to the “GET Involved” tab and click on “WWOOFing” to learn about our options to GET Educated through volunteering, thanks!

 

  • Farm Trade

 

Go to the “GET Involved” tab and click on “Farm Ttrade” to learn about our options to GET Educated through volunteering, thanks!

 

 

As we said at the top:

 

Please do not come to the farm unless you have communicated with Nathan, thanks.

 

If interested or want learn more, please e-mail Nathan McFall, Farm Manager, at nathan@foodwaves.org or text him at (503) 830-5164. 

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