2027 Program Update!
The MSU Organic Farmer Training Program will have 4 hands-on learning sites for 2027! The OFTP will have a hybrid format with:
- 4 Monday field trips + 1 weekend field trip to visit 20+ sustainable farms
- 14 days for interactive online learning together with all 4 groups
- Hands-on learning as a full group on farms
- Choose your learning site for the remaining 8 days:
- Keep Growing Detroit
- MSU Student Organic Farm in East Lansing
- New City Farm in Grand Rapids
- Edible Flint
New farmers learn real hands-on farm skills while planning for a farm that fits their values, goals, skills, land and markets. Check out the full schedule to see how the OFTP can help you make your farm dreams a reality. This experience is defined by its learning community of aspiring and beginning farmers, farmworkers, homesteaders, educational gardeners and OFTP instructors who all support each other in learning skills for farming, business planning and creating positive community change. It worked for 2019 graduate Heather Fuson, who says “Before OFTP I had a vision, but when I left I had a plan.”
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