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May 17, 2024
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HORT 258 - Urban Farming and Business Practices II
3.0 Credits
Continuation of HORT 257 to explore urban farm models and entrepreneurship, while developing summertime hands on urban farming skills at the Sammamish Valley student farm. Field trips are an integral part of this course. Be prepared to arrive and depart from sites on your own. Prerequisite
HORT 257. Corequisite
Course-level Learning Objectives (CLOs)
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate summertime urban farm management skills with farm site soils, plants, animals, equipment, tools, materials, and supplies both in a greenhouse and in the field.
- Apply and compare a diverse set of cropping systems and practices associated with urban-scale operations for four season production in the Pacific Northwest.
- Produce an urban whole-farm management plan outline that balances productive efficiency, resource conservation, and socioeconomic resiliency.
- Describe the components of a farm business plan and create a plan outline based upon triple bottom line sustainability principles and agricultural market research.
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