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Discover climate solutions to help your community’s families and businesses combat global warming.
Depleted and eroded soils, unreliable access to water, drought, outmoded agricultural practices and a lack of coping strategies for adapting to a changing climate are leading to reduced agricultural productivity and income for North American Farmers.
An 8 week, self-paced training program. where you will develop a Climate Smart Agricultural Plan to present to your community for adapting to a changing climate. Each one of the assignments will be a concrete step in developing the plan. By the end of the 8 weeks, you will have conducted surveys with the community to better understand the challenges—and will have researched solution-oriented activities to solve them.
In OL 333 participants and their community members will first develop a map of local cropping systems, and soil and water resources, and then consult with an expert in soil, water and agriculture to develop a Climate Smart Agricultural Plan specific to their local community needs.
The course includes an overview of different viewpoints of climate smart agricultural practices complete with downloadable manuals and field guides for each technique. Examples include:
This course is designed to develop a plan for a rural agricultural community—although It will be just as useful for a family farmer to use on their own farm.
From the community perspective, this course is perfect for a group of engaged community members, a nonprofit serving rural communities, tribal communities, and local governments hoping to improve farming conditions in their town.
8 Weeks: Work with farmers to solve climate challenges
Week 1. Surveys and interviews to collect local knowledge on agriculture.
Week 2. Participatory mapping of cropping systems, and soil and water resources.
Week 3. Traditional Ecological Knowledge Practices.
Week 4. Regenerative Agriculture Techniques.
Week 5. Dryland farming techniques. Buffering against extended dry spells.
Week 6. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Activities.
Week 7. Workshop planning for sharing improved agricultural practices with community members.
Week 8. Facilitate a community meeting to receive input on the plan.
“Hi Tim, Please find attached Assignment 5 for OL 333.
I really enjoyed this assignment, I thought that the activities made sense—and the training program I have developed is looking great (I even feel like I want to take this training program myself!).
I was actually looking forward to taking this course and I have thoroughly enjoyed it. Great course! Anne Desrochers.
Work with your community’s farmers to solve climate challenges. Take this 8 week course to get farm families growing healthy, nutritious food again!
Real human help: The training program will be led by Tim Magee, CSDi’s Executive Director, who has over 40 years experience in growing food. Mr. Magee is the author of A Field Guide to Community Based Adaptation, A Solar Greenhouse Guide to Food Production, and was a Co-Founder of Seattle Tilth: An Urban Agricultural Center. Mr. Magee studied international agriculture at Washington State University—a Land Grant University.
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This course has a prerequisite: OL 102 Sustainable Development Projects, or 242 Fund Your Climate Action Plan,
or OL 342 Climate Change Adaptation. Why are there prerequisites?
$100.00
Take this course with a live teacher. You will have complete access to the download course resources and lessons described below. Certificate: Turn in the 6 assignments and you will receive a PDF Certificate. Your course teacher will offer professional comments and encouragement for your assignments.
Course resources include:
8 PDF Detailed Assignments
8 PDF In-depth Discussions
8 MS Word Completed Assignment Templates for you to personalize to be your own assignment for submittal.
Over 50 Word, Excel and PDF resources to download that contain learning guides, studies—and project templates for you to edit and personalize.
Read more about agriculture in these newsletters:
Urban Agriculture: I Return Full Circle to my Urban Roots
Tim Magee’s Food Garden: Getting Started with Nutrition
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