Fwd: free workshops for everyone (not just youth)!
Rhonda Teitel-Payne
From: sundance commons <progr...@sundancecommons.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 19:49:27 -0400
Subject: free workshops for everyone (not just youth)!
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sundance commons
Happy June!
We are happy to announce many free workshops available to everyone (not just youth!).
Open to All!
(not just youth!)
We are excited to announce our first collaborative workshop of the season!
On Sunday June 23rd we are collaborating with Evermeadow Farm to bring you an interactive workshop on Regenerative Livestock Management.
Come to their pasture-based farm where they raise chicken, lamb and pigs to learn about beyond-organic management practices such as sustainable rotational grazing. Through our interactive field walk with Josh, you will see how they have increased biodiversity and resilience on the land they manage through their regenerative livestock practices.
During this interactive workshop, learn how to trellis tomatoes, fertilize, intensively prune, cultivate and troubleshoot common issues. At our Woodbine urban farm there are lots of tomatoes being grown in the field as well as the greenhouse. From a backyard gardener to a market farmer - you'll learn how to grow really great tomatoes!
New Farmer Training Program
We have less than 5 spots left for our next cohort which starts mid-summer!
The New Farmer Training Program is a free twice a year educational program for youth under 29 who would like to start their own farming operation or become farm workers.
🍓 15 weeks of urban and rural farm workshops
🥒 Access to Sundance Commons farming mentors
🥦 Virtual learning library
🌽 Bi-weekly group mentorship sessions
🫑 A network of peers and new farm connections
🍅 Potential land access at one of our four Sundance Commons farm sites
Dates and Times
Saturdays 10am-12pm
Cohort Two: Early August to Mid-November
Deadline to Apply: July 24 (applications accepted on a rolling basis)
The bi-weekly group mentorship sessions are on Mondays at 7PM virtually.
The New Farmer Training Program takes place mainly at our urban farm site in Rexdale (555 Rexdale Blvd.) that is TTC accessible with 4 out of 15 workshops taking place at our rural farms, transportation will be provided for you there and back!
June is the time where the flowers start blooming and the crops start soaring to the sky. We would love for you to join us at our next Community Field Day on Saturday June 29th. You can expect: cut-flower sales, veggie sale, farm tour, hands-on Grow Great Tomatoes workshop, horseshoe toss, puppet theatre, tour of the Sundance Harvest managed market farm on site, information about the free educational offerings Sundance Commons provides on site, immersive native pollinator planting and much more.
Come on by! All are welcomed, though a free ticket is required so we can email you resources after as well as keep a tally.
Cappa, Farmer Member of Sundance Commons, tending the land in late May.
We now can offer tax receipts for donations! Thanks to our Supportive Partnership with Foodshare you can donate here and receive a tax receipt.
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Sundance Commons is a agricultural non-profit that operates at four farm locations in southwestern Ontario. We provide the tools, training, guidance, and access for new farmers who face barriers in entry into the agricultural sector and land access more broadly. Sundance Commons envisions a regenerative and food-secure world where the equity and agency of farm workers is centered.