Profitable Urban Farming with Curtis Stone
November 22 and 23
Long Beach
Learn how you can farm on just a quarter acre of land and make $50,000, or even $100,000 on half an acre.
In this two day workshop, you will learn about strategic production
techniques that focus on high value crops with short growth cycles as
well as specialized and niche market streams such as restaurants, and
cooperative CSA's. You will also learn how to use modern technology to
better manage your business that will save you time and money!
Topics Covered: Market research, site selection, site negotiation,
crop selection, bed layout, tools, planting, weeding, watering timers,
harvesting, market prep & storage, restaurant, CSA, and much more!
Who is this workshop for?
Someone who wants to go into an urban food production business.
This
workshop is about serious, high production urban farming and focuses on
the business of urban farming - specifically how to produce high value
crops and how to sell them.
This
isn't a how to garden workshop, this is a how to garden bio-intensively
and profitably so you can make a living doing it workshop.
Curtis Stone is the owner/operator of Green City Acres, a commercial
urban farm in Kelowna, BC. Since 2010, he has been successfully farming
on multiple urban lots in the cities downtown, and will demonstrate to
you, that you can farm on very small plots of land without the debt
burden of a mortgage or the high capital expenses of the usual
infrastructure that most farms need.
Curtis wants to show you how you can shave off two to three years of
the mistakes he made, and get you off to a strong start now, making a
great living doing something you love!
The workshop will take place in Long Beach on November 22 and 23 and costs $199.