HORT 257 - Urban Farming and Business Planning I

1. Discuss and evaluate common and emergent urban farm models, and describe the entrepreneurial competencies required to sustain these small businesses.
2. Demonstrate springtime urban farm management skills with farm site soils, plants, animals, equipment, tools, materials, and supplies both in a greenhouse and in the field.
3. Apply and compare a diverse set of cropping systems and practices associated with urban scale operations for four season production in the Pacific Northwest.
4. Produce an urban whole farm management plan outline that balances productive efficiency, resource conservation, and socioeconomic resiliency.
5. Describe the components of a farm business plan, and create a plan outline based upon triple bottom line sustainability principles and agricultural market research.