Our courses are developed and taught by EFAO member farmers and designed to give farmers dedicated to ecological production methods the knowledge and confidence you need to run a responsible and profitable farm. Check out our course description page for details on all of our courses, including:
- Introduction to Ecological Agriculture
- Composting
- Transition to Certified Organic Farming
- Field Crop Rotation
- Market Garden Crop Rotation
- Direct Marketing
- Finding the Balance: Soil Testing and Amendments for Organic Farmers
- Pastured Poultry
Event Submission
EFAO helps you stay on top of all farming events happening in Ontario and sometimes beyond. Throughout the year, we host kitchen table meetings, farm tours, workshops and courses. We also support other farming events around the province. Anyone can contact us with an event and we will post it in our enews, print newsletter and on our website.
Want to submit an event for our E-newsletter? We would be happy to help you spread the word about your upcoming event, here is what you need to do!
-E-news goes out monthly at the beginning of the month, if you want your event included in the e-news you need to get it to us before then.
-Put your event right in the e-mail, don't send an attachment. Use plain text, 12pt, arial font, no formatting.
-In this order include: the title, date, location, time, short description, and contact information.
-If you have a picture or logo you can attach that to the e-mail, and we will try and use it.
For example;
Music to Improve Livestock Health Workshop
Monday, June 3, 2020
123 Tempo Rd, Guelph, ON
9:00am-4:00pm
This workshop will teach you how to use beautiful opera music to calm your cows before bedtime. Andre Papnicolaou is an expect in this area, and he will teach you everything you need to improve your milk production,and meat quality, all for a song.
Fee: $20.00/ person. Contact Andreas Puchinni at tenor@operalover.org. 647.456.789
All set? Great now that you have formatted your event you can send it to outreach@efao.ca, and we will include it in out next newsletter!
