Everdale's Organic Farming Certificate (OFC) program

Five full tuition scholarships available in 2010.

In 2010 we are replacing our former farm internship program with the Organic Farming Certificate (OFC) program.  Our previous internship program was offered from 2000-2009.  More than 50 men and women graduated from that program.  About half of them are now farming.  Others are pursuing careers in fields related to food and suatainable farming systems.

The OFC is a seven month program.  OFC interns live and work at Everdale for the duration of the program.  The OFC is a tuition-based program which makes it unlike standard farm internships.  In 2010, we are able to offer a full tuition scholarship to each of the five successful applicants.  S0 the only cost for 2010 participants will be for food and lodging.

The OFC is based on the training curriculum developed by the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems at the University of California at Santa Cruz and we gratefully acknowledge their generousity in making their resources available.

Everdale's OFC offers a balance of practical field training and theoretical learning.  The weekly OFC schedule is divided as follows:

• Three days per week farm work performaing the full range of farm tasks from soil preparation and planting to harvesting and market.
• Two days per week of instruction/training following the units of study in the OFC curriculum.  Fields trips, (six CRAFT Ontario field trips plus 18 other field trips specific to the OFC), interactive lectures and seminars, a personal garden plot project completed by each intern, field walks and technical demostrations, and required readings.
• Two days off per week

• Application form (see link below)
• Detailed farm description (see link below)
• Program details and how to apply (see link below)
• Program contact info
• Discover what some of our former interns have gone on to do